# Flaxman v. Burnett

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 2, 1990 · 393 Pa. Super. 520

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9750053

## Case

- **Full name:** Edward FLAXMAN and John Savarese, Appellants, v. Dan BURNETT, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., William Agriss, Wayne Mazur, John Neff and Marc R. Wolfe
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** May 2, 1990
- **Citations:** 393 Pa. Super. 520; 574 A.2d 1061; 1990 Pa. Super. LEXIS 913
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wieand
- **Judges:** Brosky, Wieand, Johnson
- **Cited by:** 23 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9750053

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- declining to transfer cause of action involving transit authority to Commonwealth Court where parties did not raise objection to Superior Court’s assumption of jurisdiction as required by Pa.R.A.P. 741(a)
- declining to transfer cause of action to Commonwealth Court where parties did not raise objection to Superior Court’s assumption of jurisdiction, as required by Pa.R.A.P. 741(a)
- concluding that the Authority is a local agency

## Opinion text

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring.
I would hold that the trial court properly transferred venue to Monroe County for the convenience of the parties and witnesses. Therefore, I concur in the decision to affirm the order of the trial court.

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