Case Name: Sondra MYERSON and Albert Myerson, Appellants, v. ROLLING HILL HOSPITAL and Dr. Oscar Corn
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1981-07-24
Citations: 289 Pa. Super. 185
Docket Number: No. 1183
Parties: Sondra MYERSON and Albert Myerson, Appellants, v. ROLLING HILL HOSPITAL and Dr. Oscar Corn.
Judges: Before SPAETH, BROSKY and HOFFMAN, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 289
Pages: 185–187

Head Matter:
432 A.2d 1114
Sondra MYERSON and Albert Myerson, Appellants, v. ROLLING HILL HOSPITAL and Dr. Oscar Corn.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued Dec. 5, 1980.
Filed July 24, 1981.
Gustine J. Pelagatti, Philadelphia, for appellants.
Harold B. Marcus, Philadelphia, for Rolling Hill, appellee.
Allan Molotsky, Philadelphia, for Corn, appellee.
Before SPAETH, BROSKY and HOFFMAN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Appellants were the plaintiffs in this medical malpractice action which stems from the hospitalization of appellant-wife for knee surgery. The first post-operative x-rays of her knee were taken six days after the surgery. Five days after the x-rays were taken, the patient was diagnosed as having a staphylococcus infection.
Appellants contend that the patient contracted the infection because the appellee-doctor did not properly cleanse the operative site of boney debris. They allege that appelleehospital did not recognize the development of the infection as promptly as it should have.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendants, which was filed. Appellants' motion for a new trial was denied by order of April 26, 1979. This appeal, which is from that order, was filed without a final judgment having been entered in the court below. The appeal will therefore be quashed.
As we said in Brogley v. Chambersburg Engineering Company v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 283 Pa.Super. 562, 424 A.2d 952 (1981).
We have repeatedly advised the profession that an order refusing a new trial is interlocutory and is unappealable. Cf. Bartkewich v. Billinger, 430 Pa. 207, 241 A.2d 916 (1968), and cases cited therein. The appeal should not be filed and may not be entertained until a final judgment is entered.
[citing Slagter v. Mix, 441 Pa. 272, 272 A.2d 885 (1971)].
Appeal quashed.