Opinion
Argued January 9, 1976
March 5, 1976.
Argued January 9, 1976, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., ROGERS and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.
Original jurisdiction, No. 747 C.D. 1975, in case of Gloria Snyder v. Ashland State Hospital and Charles Post, Administrator, Ashland State Hospital. Complaint in trespass in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to recover damages for personal injuries. Defendants filed preliminary objections. Held: Preliminary objections sustained.
Charles A. Bressi, Jr., for plaintiff. Edward E. Knauss, III, with him Metzger, Wickersham, Knauss Erb, for defendant, Post.
Jeffrey Cooper, Deputy Attorney General, with him Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Attorney General, Lawrence Silver, Deputy Attorney General, and Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, for defendant, Ashland State Hospital.
The preliminary objections are hereby sustained on the basis of our decisions in Freach v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 23 Pa. Commw. 546, 354 A.2d 908 (1976), and Heifetz v. Philadelphia State Hospital, 22 Pa. Commw. 325, 348 A.2d 455 (1975).
ORDER
AND NOW, this 5th day of March, 1976, the preliminary objections of Defendants, Ashland State Hospital and Charles Post, are hereby sustained.