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· 2/24/1890

Worrall v. Pyle

Citations

  • 132 Pa. 529
  • 19 A. 341
  • 1890 Pa. LEXIS 847

Syllabus

<p>Although parol testimony, offered 'to re-form a written instrument and excluded, may have been admissible yet if subsequently other testimony is admitted covering about everything contained in the offers refused, the rulings complained of were harmless, and no cause of reversal is shown.</p>

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that if workers’ disability laws that expressly applied to the DRPA were substantially similar, the laws would be found to apply to the DRPA
  • stating that if disability pay enactments of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were substantially similar, court could find agreement by states concerning extent of disability pay
  • stating that if disability pay enactments of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were substantially similar, court could find agreement by states concerning extent of disability pay
  • “neither creator state can unilaterally impose additional duties, powers, or responsibilities upon [a bi-state agency]”
  • Delaware River Port Authority, being created by interstate compact, in an instrumentality of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and neither creator state can unilaterally impose additional duties, powers or responsibilities upon the authority

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Judges: Clark, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Williams

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