LAFFEY v. LEHIGH VAL. DAIRY CO-OP.


257 Pa.Super. 45 (1978)

390 A.2d 238

Stephen P. LAFFEY, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Country Belle Cooperative Farmers and Milkland, Inc., its Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, Appellant, v. LEHIGH VALLEY DAIRY COOPERATIVE, and Richard L. Allison and Daniel B. Wanner, Individually, Defendants, v. Clyde S. ROBINSON, Richard G. Rhoades, Wendell J. Smith, Chester F. Elliott, Vance W. Burtner, Merle Claypoole, Francis L. McChesney, Robert H. Nehrig, W. Robert Orr, Ralph T. Oakes, Cliff J. Snyder, John D. Stockdale, and Wayne A. Wood, Additional Defendants, v. BALTIMORE BANK FOR COOPERATIVES, New Party Defendant, Appellee.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Tucker, Pittsburgh, with him John B. Montgomery, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Kenneth P. Simon, Pittsburgh, with him Allan A. Garfinkel, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before WATKINS, President Judge, and JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN der VOORT and SPAETH, JJ.


JACOBS, President Judge:

This appeal arises from an order of the court below sustaining preliminary objections to service of process on the Baltimore Bank For Cooperatives (the Bank) and quashing the writ to join the Bank as a party. The question presented for our review is whether the Bank's activities rendered it subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the court below. However, for the reasons that follow, we cannot address the merits of this issue, and must...

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