AFFLECK v. ST. BARNABAS, INC.


523 Pa. 288 (1989)

566 A.2d 852

James AFFLECK, Clara B. Archibald, Agnes Austin, Ruth W. Blackburn, Holbrook G. Botset, Meldrew Boyle, Elsie Breen, Sara S. Brown, Elizabeth S. Brush, Erwin Campbell, Iva Campbell, Thomas Campbell, Lois M. Chamberlain, John Cleland, E. Clifford Ebert, Edna N. Ebert, Betty R. Elliott, Robert Erwin, John Grabe, Grace Grabe, Beatrice Grater, Elizabeth B. Gregg, Ruth N. Hardy, Josephine T. Haught, Naomi V. Henry, Albert Henry, Fern L. High, Grace Holmes, Ruth Howarth, Dorothy Jackson, Wayne R. Jamison, Pauline Jamison, John Latimer, Helen Lutton, Olive McClelland, Martha McGrew, William Moorhead, Dorothy Moorhead, Evelyn O. Nicholas, Agnes R. Peacock, Carl A. Reshenberg, Christine Rhodes, Charles F. Robinson, Ernest Ruder, Martha Ruder, John G. Samuels, E.P. Schaelchlin, Nelly F. Schaelchlin, Adele C. Schoenberger, Catherine Sherman, Elizabeth M. Silvis, Gladys Spencer, Elizabeth A. Weixel, Grace Weixel, Nora C. Welte, Leslie C. Whitney and Mabel Williamson, Appellants, v. ST. BARNABAS, INC.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Simon, Phillip S. Simon, Simon & Simon, Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Thomas E. Birsic, James A. Buddie, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

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


Prior report: 541 A.2d 1147.

PER CURIAM:

Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently granted.

PAPADAKOS, J., files a dissenting opinion.

LARSEN, J., dissents.

PAPADAKOS, Justice, dissenting.

The appeal in this case arises from a suit for breach of contract brought by Appellants, who are residents of a retirement community, against Appellee, the owner of the retirement community. In their Complaint, Appellants alleged that...

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