Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation v. Caterpillar Tractor Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• sudden fire, combined with lack of fire suppression system, caused total loss of front loader
• federal court may consult decisions of other state courts in predicting how state court would rule
• in predicting how state court would rule, federal court should consult underlying policies of the law
• sudden fire, combined with lack of fire suppression system, caused total loss of front loader
• “Here, the damage to the front-end loader was the result of a fire — a sudden and highly dangerous occurrence.”
• “[I]n the absence of an authoritative pronouncement from the state’s highest court, the task of a federal tribunal is to predict how that court would rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).