DiSERAFINO v. BUCYRUS-ERIE CORP.


323 Pa.Super. 247 (1983)

470 A.2d 574

Mary DiSERAFINO, Personal Representative of, for and on behalf of the Estate of Frank DiSerafino, Deceased, for the Maintenance of an Action Under the Pennsylvania Survival Statute and Mary DiSerafino, Personal Representative for and on Behalf of all Entitled to Recover Under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death Statute, Appellant, v. BUCYRUS-ERIE CORPORATION, Hydynamic Division and H.T. Sweeney & Son.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed December 23, 1983.

Petition for Allowance of Appeal Denied April 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. McFadden, Jr., Media, for appellant.

Joseph V. Pinto, Philadelphia, for Bucyrus-Erie, appellee.

Bryon L. Milner, Philadelphia, for H.T. Sweeney, appellee.

Before HESTER, WICKERSHAM and POPOVICH, JJ.


WICKERSHAM, Judge:

Plaintiff's decedent, Frank DiSerafino, died on January 16, 1975, in an on-the-job accident, when he was crushed beneath the boom and bucket of a front-end loader-backhoe manufactured by defendant Bucyrus-Erie Corporation. Decedent's widow, Mary DiSerafino, as personal representative of the estate, brought suit under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Act against Bucyrus-Erie alleging...

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