WICKS v. MILZOCO BUILDERS, INC.


481 Pa. 554 (1978)

393 A.2d 300

Robert B. WICKS and Lucy J. Wicks, Individually and as parents and natural guardians of Jill, Geoffrey and Audrey Wicks, minors, v. MILZOCO BUILDERS, INC., Carroll Builders, Inc., R.L. Sheibley and Benjamin Breneman, trading as R.L. Sheibley Construction Co., Georgian Hall Real Estate, Monroe Township[*], Eugene Cook, Chester Miller, Wesley Zollers, Scott Greenfield, Kenneth Miller, Charles Baker and Merle Wertz, Charles J. BAUER and Ruth M. Bauer, Individually and as parents and natural guardians of Ruth, Charles, John, Linda and Michele Bauer, minors, v. MILZOCO BUILDERS, INC., Carroll Builders, Inc., R.L. Sheibley and Benjamin Breneman, trading as R.L. Sheibley Construction Co., Georgian Hall Real Estate, Monroe Township[*], Eugene Cook, Chester Miller, Wesley Zollers, Scott Greenfield, Kenneth Miller, Charles Baker and Merle Wertz, Donald L. SHERIFF and Pamela K. Sheriff, Individually and as parents and natural guardians of Michael Sheriff, a minor, v. MILZOCO BUILDERS, INC., Carroll Builders, Inc., R.L. Sheibley and Benjamin Breneman, trading as R.L. Sheibley Construction Co., Georgian Hall Real Estate, Monroe Township[*], Eugene Cook, Chester Miller, Wesley Zollers, Scott Greenfield, Kenneth Miller, Charles Baker and Merle Wertz, William E. LELLO and Linda J. Lello v. MILZOCO BUILDERS, INC., Chester Miller, Wesley Zollers, Monroe Township[*], Kenneth Miller, Charles Baker and Merle Wertz,

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Snelbaker, Martson & Snelbaker, Mechanicsburg, for appellant.

([*] Monroe Township only, Appellant herein).

Richard C. Angino, Hurwitz, Klein, Benjamin & Angino, Harrisburg, for appellees, Robert & Lucy Wicks.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

Appellees, the Wicks, Bauer, Sheriff, and Lello families, brought suit against several construction companies, a real estate firm and its agents, three Supervisors of Monroe Township and appellant, Monroe Township, for damages sustained when inadequate drainage systems and excessive runoff of water and mud from a hill above their properties made appellees' homes nearly uninhabitable. The runoff problems were allegedly...

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