Case Name: Arlene SWANSON, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of David Swanson, Deceased, Petitioner, v. McNEIL-PPC, INC., Anthony R. Temple, M.D., and Warner-Lambert Company, Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1997-12-31
Citations: 704 A.2d 628
Docket Number: Petition No. 236 Eastern District Allocatur Docket, 1997
Parties: Arlene SWANSON, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of David Swanson, Deceased, Petitioner, v. McNEIL-PPC, INC., Anthony R. Temple, M.D., and Warner-Lambert Company, Respondents.
Judges: NIGRO, J., dissents.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 704
Pages: 628–628

Head Matter:
Arlene SWANSON, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of David Swanson, Deceased, Petitioner, v. McNEIL-PPC, INC., Anthony R. Temple, M.D., and Warner-Lambert Company, Respondents.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Dec. 31, 1997.
Thomas R. Hurd, Philadelphia, for petitioner.
Patrick Malone for petitioner.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 31st day of December, 1997, the Application for Leave to Supplement Petition for Allowance of Appeal is granted. The Supplement to Petition for Allowance of Appeal appended to the Application and the Supplement to Respondents' Opposition to Allowance of Appeal appended to the Answer to Application for Leave to Supplement shall be docketed as filed.
The Petition for Allowance of Appeal is granted, the order of the Superior Court is reversed, the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County is vacated, and the matter is remanded to the common pleas court for further proceedings consistent with Cheeseman v. Lethal Exterminator, Inc., and Forman v. Rossman, 549 Pa. 200, 701 A.2d 156 (1997).
NIGRO, J., dissents.