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NORTON v. RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC.

No. 17715.

412 F.2d 112 (1969)

Jacob NORTON, Appellant, v. RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard E. Price, Price, Bercik & Kernan, Oakdale, Pa. (Herbert J. Johnson, Jr., Evans, Johnson, Scarpitti, Bernard & Wittmann, Erie, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

John A. Spaeder, Marsh, Spaeder, Baur, Spaeder & Schaaf, Erie, Pa., for appellee.

Before FREEDMAN, SEITZ and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

This is a tort action sounding in negligence which is in the federal courts solely because of the diversity of citizenship of the litigants. It requires us to consider the familiar doctrines of reasonable care and respondent superior as interpreted by the courts of Pennsylvania. The facts are not complicated.

The plaintiff-appellant worked as a handyman for a supper club in Erie, Pennsylvania....

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