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· 11/4/1895

Steele v. McGill

Citations

  • 172 Pa. 100
  • 33 A. 146
  • 1895 Pa. LEXIS 737

Syllabus

<p>Practice, G. P. — Parties—Action—Tenants in common.</p> <p>Pour tenants in common joined in a mortgage for the benefit of one of their number, upon his promise to protect them from loss.</p> <p>The mortgaged premises were afterwards sold for the debt, and the then cotenants joined in an action to recover for their loss.</p> <p>Held, that the joinder was proper if the promise was made to them as cotenants.</p>

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  • No wrongful death and survival action could be filed on behalf of one of ten-week-old twin fetuses who died as a result of motor vehicle accident involving mother

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Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

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