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SEARLES v. SEPTA

Nos. 92-1573, 92-1574.

990 F.2d 789 (1993)

Hester Lee SEARLES, Individually, as Administrator of the Estate of Metz John Searles, Deceased, and on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, Appellant in No. 92-1573, v. SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY. Hester Lee SEARLES, Individually, as Administrator of the Estate of Metz John Searles, Deceased, and on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, Appellant in No. 92-1574, v. J. Clayton UNDERCOFLER; Frank W. Jenkins; Mary C. Harris; Thomas M. Hayward; Richard E. Kurtz; H. Patrick Swygert; Andrew L. Warren; Louis J. Gambaccini; Howard J. Roberts, Jr.; Charles W. Thomas; R.O. Swindell; Patrick Nowakowski; Richard L. Fasy; Joseph Russell; John T. Prader; Sandra E. Peopples; George Spence; Jeff McCormick; Hal S. Davidow; W. Eric Vogel; R.M. Hergenrader; Charles Baum; Stephen C. Stitsworth; Henry David, Jr.; Gerald P. Lynch, Jr.; Anthony Theodoro; William Swent; William C. Glenn; Dominic Principe; Gino Roman; Carmen Digaetano; William Gulden; Dennis Miller; Robert Burrell; Miguel Moncayo; Gene Yee; Larry Jackson; R. Lyman; Paul Gary El; James Sweeney; Robert Perazzo; Richard Lineman; Joseph Farkus, Individually and in their Official Capacities.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 27, 1993.

Sur Petition for Rehearing May 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart L. Cohen, Kessler & Cohen, Philadelphia, PA, William D. Marvin, Morris M. Shuster (argued), Shuster & Marvin, Bala Cynwyd, PA, for appellants.

David P. Bruton (argued), Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Perry S. Bechtle, LaBrum & Doak, Philadelphia, PA, for appellees.

BEFORE HUTCHINSON, NYGAARD and SEITZ, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff, Hester Lee Searles, individually and in her capacity as administratrix of the estate of her husband, filed the first of two complaints on October 28, 1991, seeking damages for the fatal injuries sustained by her husband in the derailment of a Market/Frankford Elevated ("El") railcar on March 7, 1990.1 The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority...

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