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JOHNSON v. HENKELS & McCOY, INC.

707 A.2d 237 (1997)

Harry Chris JOHNSON and Rebecca Jane Johnson, H/W, Appellants, v. HENKELS & McCOY, INC. and Western Stress, Inc., and General Electric Company in its own right and d/b/a GE Nuclear Energy, E.H. Hinds, Division of Altantic Plant Maintenance, Inc. Harry Chris JOHNSON and Rebecca Jane Johnson, H/W, Appellants, v. HENKELS & McCOY, INC. and Western Stress, Inc. and E.H. Hinds, Division of Atlantic Plaint Maintenance, Inc. and General Electric Company in its own right and d/b/a GE Nuclear Energy.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed December 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Patton, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Joanne R. Jenkins, Philadelphia, for Henkels & McCoy, Inc., appellee.

Glenn M. Campbell, Philadelphia, for Western Stress, Inc., appellee.

Before CIRILLO and CERCONE, President Judges Emeritus, and MONTEMURO, J.

MONTEMURO, Judge:

Appellant/Plaintiffs, Harry and Rebecca Johnson, appeal the January 3, 1997 Order of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas granting the petition of Appellee/Defendant, Henkels & McCoy, Inc., to transfer venue to Montgomery County based on the doctrine of forum non conveniens.1 For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.

The underlying action arose from an accident at the Bergen Fossil Generating Station...

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