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REACHARD v. UGI GAS CO.

No. 3117-S-1990.

11 Pa. D. & C. 4th 321 (1991)

Reachard v. UGI Gas Co.

Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

April 17, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Harris, for plaintiff.

Nicholas A. Veronis, for defendants Truman E. Horner Inc. and Chambers Development Co.

Michael D. Pipa, for defendant UGI Gas Co.

DOWLING, J., April 17, 1991.

While the term `tort' has apparently escaped the boundaries of definition,* the word is derived from the Latin tortus, or twisted, and was at one time in common use as a synonym for "wrong." For example, it is found in Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (1596), in the following passage from the fourth book:

The lyon did with the lamb consort And eke the dove safe by the faulcons side; No each...

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