EMBREY v. BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN


257 Pa.Super. 168 (1978)

390 A.2d 765

Sandra EMBREY, Executrix of the Estate of John M. Embrey, Deceased, v. BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant at No. 416, Traffic Control and Engineering Co., and Andrew J. Brown v. ECONOLITE CORPORATION, a Corporation and Anna Marie Schnur. Sandra EMBREY, Executrix of the Estate of John M. Embrey, Deceased, v. HOMESTEAD HOSPITAL, Appellant at Nos. 344 and 403. Appeal of TRAFFIC CONTROL AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC., at No. 410.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilbur McCoy Otto, Pittsburgh, for appellant, at Nos. 344 and 403.

Ronald H. Heck, Pittsburgh, for appellant, at No. 410.

Jan C. Swensen, Pittsburgh, for appellant, at No. 416.

Vincent J. Grogan and John E. Kunz, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

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


VAN der VOORT, Judge:

The issue on this appeal is the correct apportionment of an award of damages between two groups of defendants, those responsible for a highway accident and those responsible for the medical and hospital malpractice which followed.

The litigation grows out of a collision on April 20, 1972, between two cars at the intersection of Route 885 and Lewis Run Road in the Borough of West Mifflin, one driven by John M. Embrey on Lewis Run Road...

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