PORR ET AL. v. DEPT. OF STATE POLICE ET AL.

No. 10 T.D. 1977.

32 Pa.Commw. 68 (1977)

Pamela Porr, an Incompetent, by Fred W. Porr and Gladys Porr, Her Parents and Natural Guardians; Tamra Porr, by Fred W. Porr and Gladys Porr, Her Parents and Natural Guardians; and Fred W. Porr and Gladys Porr, Plaintiffs v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of State Police, James A. Barger, Commissioner, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General Services, Ronald G. Lench, Secretary, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 29, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Nelson Alexander, with him Alexander, Alexander & Tucker, for plaintiffs.

David Max Baer, Deputy Attorney General, with him J. Justin Blewitt, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, and Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, for defendants.

Submitted on briefs, September 13, 1977, to Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR. and ROGERS, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, JR., September 29, 1977:

This case is another in which the Department of State Police, its then Commissioner (Commissioner), and the Department of General Services and its Secretary (Secretary) have entered preliminary objections raising, inter alia, the defenses of sovereign immunity (as to the departments) and absolute immunity (as to the Commissioner and Secretary) to a complaint alleging defendants' liability for an automobile...

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