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YELLEN v. PHILA. STATE HOSP.

No. 3332 C.D. 1984.

94 Pa.Commw. 576 (1986)

Sara Sid Yellen, Appellant v. Philadelphia State Hospital, Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Kovler, for appellant.

Gary Stewart Seflin, Deputy Attorney General, with him, LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for appellee.

Submitted on briefs December 9, 1985, to Judges ROGERS and PALLADINO, and Senior Judge BARBIERI, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY SENIOR JUDGE BARBIERI, February 3, 1986:

Sara Sid Yellen, Appellant, appeals here an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County which sustained the preliminary objections of the Philadelphia State Hospital and dismissed her personal injury action against the hospital on the grounds of sovereign immunity. We reverse.

The following facts are pertinent. On July 13, 1982, Yellen was assaulted by one Walter Parker on the corner of Seventeenth...

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