Lawandoski v. Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railway Co.

Citations

• 35 Pa. Super. 10
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 197

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Expert witness — Competency of witness — Land damages.</p> <p>A witness is not competent as an expert in a case for land damages against a railroad company, where it appeared that he lived in an adjoining township three miles away from the land in question, that he had not been on it prior to the defendant’s entry, and did not know its boundaries, adjoinders, acreage, or of any sales of like property in the neighborhood.</p> <p>Trespass — Railroads—Land damages — Entry on land — Punitive darmages.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company to recover damages for injuries to land evidence of a personal altercation between the defendant’s employees-with the plaintiff as to the defendant’s right to enter upon the land, is not ground for an award of punitive damages against the defendant, where there is nothing to indicate wantonness, evil intent, or wrong motive.</p>