# Gonzalez v. United States Steel Corp.

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · March 16, 1979 · 484 Pa. 277

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9644563

## Case

- **Full name:** Evelyn GONZALEZ, Administratrix of the Estate of Candido Gonzalez, Deceased, Appellant, at No. 239, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, a Corporation, Appellant at No. 241, v. EDWARD GRAY CORPORATION. Vincent CARDILLO, Appellant at No. 240, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, a Corporation, Appellant at No. 242, v. EDWARD GRAY CORPORATION
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 16, 1979
- **Citations:** 484 Pa. 277; 398 A.2d 1378; 1979 Pa. LEXIS 494
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Manderino
- **Judges:** Eagen, Larsen, Manderino, Nix, O'Brien, Pomeroy, Roberts, Steel
- **Cited by:** 67 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding "the common law has long thought it best to leave to the court rather than to the jury the essentially factual question of what the contracting parties intended."

## Opinion text

MANDERINO, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. The order of the Superior Court should be vacated and the order of the trial court affirmed. See *302 Gonzalez v. United States Steel, 248 Pa.Super. 95, 108 , 374 A.2d 1334, 1341 (1977) (Spaeth, J., dissenting).

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