SHANNON v. BARRETT

No. 6176 of 1973.

65 Pa. D. & C. 2d 446 (1974)

Shannon v. Barrett

Common Pleas Court of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

March 1, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Kilpatrick, Jr., for plaintiffs.

Lawrence E. Grant, for defendants.


LIPPINCOTT, J., March 1, 1974.

May liability be imposed upon an attorney and his client for wrongfully filing a lis pendens against property owned by husband and wife, when the sole cause of action was against the husband? The case is apparently one of first impression.

William F. Barrett, by his attorney Alan B. Portnoff (defendants herein), originally sued William P. Shannon alone in assumpsit in Chester County (later transferred to Montgomery County) to...

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