Case Name: Linda CALLSEN (Seeley), Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Elizabeth Callsen, Deceased, and on Behalf of Frank Callsen and Michael Callsen v. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Cheltenham York Nursing Home, Herbert Secoular, D.O., Raymond Hancock, Hancock Funeral Home, Ltd., Humanity Gifts Registry, Alan Koff, D.O., Marvin Schatz, D.O., Albert Einstein Medical Center, Amy Fitzsimmons, M.D., and Annette Petrie, R.N. Appeal of HUMANITY GIFTS REGISTRY. Cross Appeal of TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1995-01-18
Citations: 539 Pa. 377
Docket Number: Appeals No. 38 E.D. Appeal Dkt. 1994
Parties: Linda CALLSEN (Seeley), Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Elizabeth Callsen, Deceased, and on Behalf of Frank Callsen and Michael Callsen v. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Cheltenham York Nursing Home, Herbert Secoular, D.O., Raymond Hancock, Hancock Funeral Home, Ltd., Humanity Gifts Registry, Alan Koff, D.O., Marvin Schatz, D.O., Albert Einstein Medical Center, Amy Fitzsimmons, M.D., and Annette Petrie, R.N. Appeal of HUMANITY GIFTS REGISTRY. Cross Appeal of TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.
Judges: Before FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY, CASTILLE and MONTEMURO, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 539
Pages: 377–382

Head Matter:
652 A.2d 824
Linda CALLSEN (Seeley), Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Elizabeth Callsen, Deceased, and on Behalf of Frank Callsen and Michael Callsen v. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Cheltenham York Nursing Home, Herbert Secoular, D.O., Raymond Hancock, Hancock Funeral Home, Ltd., Humanity Gifts Registry, Alan Koff, D.O., Marvin Schatz, D.O., Albert Einstein Medical Center, Amy Fitzsimmons, M.D., and Annette Petrie, R.N. Appeal of HUMANITY GIFTS REGISTRY. Cross Appeal of TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued Oct. 20, 1994.
Decided Jan. 18, 1995.
George F. Bihn, III, Erdenheim, Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Harrisburg, for Humanity Gifts Registry.
Richard E. Geschke, Linda A. Carpenter, Philadelphia, for Temple University Hosp.
Jamie L. Sheller, George J. Badey, III, Philadelphia, for Callsens.
Dennis L. Platt, Philadelphia, for Cheltenham York Nursing Home.
Susan Zemble Rees, Daniel F. Ryan, III, Plymouth Meeting, for H. Secoular.
Cy Goldberg, Amy L. Currier, Philadelphia, for Einstein Medical Center, Fitzsimmons, M.D. & Petrie, R.N.
Jonathan Kirk Miller, Philadelphia, for Burden, M.D. & St. Joseph Hosp.
Jane H. Ring, for Koff, D.O. & Schatz, D.O.
Eugene P. Feeney, George L. Young, Jr., Philadelphia, for Chase, M.D.
Michael P. McKenna, Wynnewood, for Hancock Funeral Home & R. Hancock.
Before FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY, CASTILLE and MONTEMURO, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
Appeals dismissed as having been improvidently granted.
NIX, C.J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.
MONTEMURO, Senior Justice, who is sitting by designation, files a dissenting statement in which CAPPY, J., joins.