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WALLACE v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE ET AL.

No. 15 T.D. 1977.

32 Pa.Commw. 615 (1977)

Thomas F. Wallace, Plaintiff v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, et al., Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

December 8, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Gropp, for plaintiff.

Paul R. Marks, with him Egler & Reinstadtler; Robert S. Englesberg, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, for defendants.

Argued October 31, 1977, before Judges WILKINSON, JR. and ROGERS, sitting as a panel of two.

OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, December 8, 1977:

Thomas F. Wallace started suit in trespass in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County seeking damages for injuries sustained in a fall from a secondstory window at the Dixmont State Hospital where he was a patient. Wallace sued the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare; Helene Wohlgemuth, Secretary of Public Welfare; the Commissioner of Mental Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the Superintendent...

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