SCHROECK v. PA. STATE POLICE ET AL.

No. 1594 C.D. 1975.

26 Pa.Commw. 41 (1976)

George W. Schroeck, Esquire, Plaintiff v. The Pennsylvania State Police, Commissioner James Barger, Major Patrick Hankinson, Lieutenant Charles Klodell, Sergeant John Loftus, Trooper John Martin, Trooper Timothy A. Baker, Trooper Lee Pierce, Betty Norman, District Attorney Robert Chase, Asst. District Attorney Charles Agresti, Asst. District Atty. Frank Kroto, the Houston General Insurance Company of Fort Worth, Texas and the Gulf-Western Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Schroeck, plaintiff, for himself.

F. Murray Bryan, with him McNees, Wallace & Nurick; John W. Beatty; Knox, Graham, Pearson, McLaughlin & Sennett, Inc.; and Lawrence F. Clark, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for defendants, Pennsylvania State Police, Commissioner James Barger, Major Patrick Hankinson, Lieutenant Charles Klodell, Sergeant John Loftus, Troopers John Martin, Timothy A. Baker, Lee Pierce, The Houston General Insurance Company of Fort Worth, Texas, and the Gulf-Western Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas.

Michael J. Visnosky, with him Carney, Good, Brabender, Palmisano & Walsh, for defendant, Norman.

Edward E. Knauss, III, with him Metzger, Wickersham, Knauss & Erb, for defendants, District Attorney Robert Chase and Assistant District Attorneys Charles Agresti and Frank Kroto.

Argued March 3, 1976, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT. Judge KRAMER did not participate.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE BOWMAN, August 9, 1976:

Plaintiff filed a complaint in this Court on his own behalf and on behalf of a class of persons whom he purports to represent alleging violations of Sections 1983 and 1985 of the Federal Civil Rights Act1 and various other causes of action, including, inter alia, invasion of privacy, false arrest and malicious prosecution...

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