Pirhalla v. Duquesne Borough

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 330
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 158

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Offer of compromise — Municipalities—Sewers.</p> <p>1, An offer to compromise a disputed claim can never be used as evidence against the party who made it.</p> <p>2. In an action against a borough to recover damages for the flooding of plaintiff’s cellar alleged to have been caused by a defective sewer, it is reversible error for the court to admit in evidence the minute book of the borough showing that the council had directed the sewer committee to investigate the plaintiff’s claim and for the court to charge that such reference to the committee was some evidence of the assumption of liability by the borough.</p>