DEMETRIOU v. CARLIN ET AL.

No. 1754 C.D. 1978.

47 Pa.Commw. 478 (1979)

Mary Demetriou, Plaintiff v. John Carlin et al., Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce G. Cassidy, with him, Michael A. Marks, for petitioners.

Walter F. Froh, Assistant Attorney General, Personal Injury Litigation Unit, with him, John L. Sweezy, Chief Attorney of Unit, Theodore A. Adler, Chief Counsel, and Edward G. Biester, Jr., Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued March 21, 1979, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS, BLATT, DiSALLE, CRAIG and MacPHAIL.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE BOWMAN, November 29, 1979:

Mary Demetriou was injured July 29, 1976 when an automobile in which she was a passenger allegedly struck a barricade on Interstate I-95 within the City of Philadelphia. On May 23, 1977 she filed a complaint in trespass in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County against the Commonwealth and other named defendants.

The Commonwealth filed preliminary objections asserting sovereign immunity and the...

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