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FORNEY v. HARRISBURG ST. HOSPITAL ET AL.

No. 13 Tr. Dkt. 1974.

18 Pa.Commw. 17 (1975)

Shirley A. Forney, Plaintiff, v. Harrisburg State Hospital, Director — Harrisburg State Hospital, Dr. Lebengood, George Madera, Miss Dawson, Jane Doe, Harrisburg Hospital, Dr. Spriggs and Dr. Gustuson, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent H. Patterson, with him Cleckner and Fearen, for plaintiff.

Barry A. Roth, Assistant Attorney General, with him Israel Packel, Attorney General, for defendant State Hospital.

James K. Thomas, with him Joseph P. Hafer, and Metzger, Hafer, Keefer, Thomas and Wood, for defendant Harrisburg Hospital.

Edward E. Knauss, III, for defendants, Lebengood, Madera and Dawson.

Submitted on briefs, December 6, 1974, to Judges CRUMLISH, JR., MENCER and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, March 17, 1975:

Once again we have before us the issue of sovereign immunity. This time the issue is asserted in preliminary objections to a complaint in trespass brought by Shirley A. Forney against the Harrisburg State Hospital, a hospital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, along with some of its employees, and also against the Harrisburg Hospital, a private institution, along with some of its employees. The complaint, having been filed...

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