WEITERSHAUSEN AGENCY v. MORGAN


395 Pa. 531 (1959)

Weitershausen Agency, Appellant, v. Morgan.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Nicklas, Jr., with him McCrady & Nicklas, for appellant.

Peter Cooper, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, Box and McBRIDE, JJ.


OPINION PER CURIAM, May 8, 1959:

The judgment is affirmed on the opinion of President Judge SNYDER for the Court en banc.

DISSENTING OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO:

A judge who unjustly censures a lawyer trying a case before him prejudices the cause of the lawyer's client in the eyes of the jury and thus works a harm which is frequently as irreparable as it is inexcusable.

In the present case the plaintiff's attorney was questioning a Mr....

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