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VAUGHN ET AL. v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE ET AL.

No. 2186 C.D. 1978.

46 Pa.Commw. 101 (1979)

Kenneth L. Vaughn, Jr., a minor by Kenneth R. Vaughn and Kathleen I. Vaughn, his parents and natural guardians et al., Plaintiffs v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare et al., Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl M. Moses, for plaintiffs.

Barbara A. Brown, Assistant Attorney General, with her John L. Sweezy, Chief Attorney of Unit, Theodore A. Adler, Chief Counsel, Department of General Services, and Edward G. Biester, Jr., Attorney General, for defendants.

Argued March 22, 1979, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS, BLATT, DiSALLE, CRAIG and MacPHAIL.

OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, September 18, 1979:

This action in trespass arose out of an accident which the complaint indicates occurred on July 19, 1976, when the plaintiff was struck in the face by a portion of an allegedly defective baseball bat while he was participating in a baseball game at the Youth Forestry Camp No. 3. This camp was at that time operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) under the supervision of an employee of the DPW named...

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