MENTZER & RHEY, INC. v. FERRARI


367 Pa.Super. 123 (1987)

532 A.2d 484

MENTZER & RHEY, INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Bob Mentzer Ford Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, and C. Robert Mentzer and Lucille F. Mentzer, His Wife, Individually v. Bruno FERRARI, Appellant, v. MENTZER & RHEY, INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Carl E. Fisher, an Individual, B. Ernest Long, Donald R. Rigone, David L. Robinson, and Wesley T. Long Trading and Doing Business as Fisher, Long, & Rigone.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed October 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan K. Berk, Greensburg, for appellant.

Virginia C. Robinson, Pittsburgh, for appellees Mentzer & Rhey, Inc., Fisher, B. Ernest Long, Robinson and Wesley T. Long, appellees.

James A. Beinkemper, Sr., Pittsburgh, for appellee Rigone.

Before ROWLEY, JOHNSON and MONTGOMERY, JJ.


JOHNSON, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the trial court sustaining preliminary objections to appellant's complaint to join additional defendants. The issue raised is whether attorneys who performed a title search for buyers of property may be properly joined as third-party defendants under Pa.R.C.P. 2252(a) when the buyers sue the seller for damages resulting from an allegedly fraudulently concealed and defective culvert and the attorneys failed to discover...

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