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CANTWELL v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY

506 Pa. 35 (1984)

483 A.2d 1350

Craig CANTWELL, Appellee, v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY, a municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. WILKINSBURG BOROUGH, a municipal corporation, Appellant, and Swissvale Borough, a municipal corporation and Ronald E. Lees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. McLean, County Sol., Allan J. Opsitnick, Asst. County Sol., Pittsburgh, for Allegheny County.

Herbert Conner, Lawrence Stengel, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Wilkinsburg Borough.

Paul D. Boas, Pittsburgh, for Craig Cantwell.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

The issue in this negligence case concerns the scope of Restatement (Second) of Torts § 324A (1965). More specifically, we must decide whether county crime labs, which undertake to perform scientific tests at the request of the police, should recognize that the results of those tests are necessary for the protection of criminal suspects who may be affected by them, such that...

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