Philadelphia Auburn-Cord Co. v. Shockcor
Philadelphia Auburn-Cord Company v. Shockcor, Appellant
Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam, The question involved in this appeal is concisely stated by the appellee as follows:
“Does a judgment against the president of a corporation individually, in his action for personal injuries, bar a subsequent action by the corporation for the property damage it sustained in the same accident?”
*139 The case is ruled in principle against the appellant by the decision of the Supreme Court in Woodburn v. Penna. Railroad Co., 294 Pa. 174 , 144 A. 93 . The court, in a per curiam opinion, there said: “Though the same defendant figures in both cases, yet, since the record tendered as evidence involved an issue pending between a plaintiff other than the one now at bar, the mere fact that the injury to both plaintiffs occurred in the same accident and that the present plaintiff appeared as a witness for the other plaintiff, would not make the judgment for defendant in such other suit res judicata in this suit:
Walker v. Phila., 195 Pa. 168, 173-4 ;
Siegfried v. Boyd, 237 Pa. 55, 58-60 .”
On the authority of the Woodburn case, the judgment is affirmed.
How later courts describe this case
Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 3 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.
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(information that patient suffered from chronic alcoholism and delirium tremens was not information which tended to blacken character of patient so as to be subject of statutory privilege)
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(company not bound by adverse determination in suit by its president)
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