Rippy v. FOGEL

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• holding that a history of collisions between automobiles and deer on a stretch of Commonwealth highway of which the Commonwealth had knowledge was not a dangerous condition of a highway under the jurisdiction of a Commonwealth agency for purposes of 42 Pa. C. S. §8522(b)(4)
• affirming dismissal of plaintiffs claim that State owed duty to correct situation of deer on highway, particularly because State had specific knowledge of prior accidents, by holding that there was no conceivable way to correct problem posed by wild animals
• wild animals, as ferae naturae, on the highway constitute a condition which cannot possibly be corrected
• no governmental liability for collision with animal ferae naturae because risk was not conceivably correctable
• no governmental liability for collision with animal ferae naturae because risk was not conceivably correctable

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