Case Name: Robert PEARSON, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Barbara Pearson, Petitioner, v. McNEIL-PPC, INC. and Anthony R. Temple, M.D., Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1997-12-31
Citations: 550 Pa. 227
Docket Number: Petition No. 232 Eastern District Allocatur Docket, 1997
Parties: Robert PEARSON, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Barbara Pearson, Petitioner, v. McNEIL-PPC, INC. and Anthony R. Temple, M.D., Respondents.
Judges: NIGRO, J., dissents.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 550
Pages: 227–228

Head Matter:
704 A.2d 630
Robert PEARSON, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Barbara Pearson, Petitioner, v. McNEIL-PPC, INC. and Anthony R. Temple, M.D., 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 farther proceedings consistent with Cheeseman v. Lethal Exterminator, Inc., and Forman v. Rossman, 549 Pa. 200, 701 A.2d 156 (1997).
NIGRO, J., dissents.