445 Pa. Super. 211 - Ray v. Armstrong Developers’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[ W]e know of no proceeding which permits the court to enter a compulsory nonsuit without testimony having been taken in court. In fact, the Act of March 11, 1875, P.L. 6, 12 P.S. § 645, grants the court the power to enter judgment of nonsuit if in the court’s opinion ‘the plaintiff shall have given No such evidence as in law is sufficient to maintain the action.’ (emphasis supplied). This Act, together with all of the cases decided thereunder setting forth the weight that a court must give to the adduced testimony and evidence, clearly indicates that a nonsuit is not to be entered prior to the taking of testimony. The law is clear that a compulsory nonsuit may not be entered at the commencement of trial on the ground that a plaintiffs proposed evidence is insufficient to sustain his cause of action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. United Hospitals, Inc.