Court Opinion

ID: 9703843
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:10:07.129079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:52.185772
License: Public Domain

*389Dissenting Opinion by
Mb. Justice Bell :
I dissent — See: Rau v. Wilden Acres, 376 Pa. 493, 494, 103 A. 2d 422, and 18 cases cited therein; Leiper v. Heywood-Hall Construction Co., 381 Pa. 317, 320, 321, 113 A. 2d 148, and cases cited.
If, notwithstanding all these decisions, the Court desires — as the majority do — to change the law, then the least the Court can do is to make the new standards clear and certain so that the parties will know their rights and limitations, and costly litigation will thereby be avoided.
I dissent from the majority opinion for the additional reason that in my judgment it sets up no clearly lighted signposts or standards, and it will therefore generate prolific litigation.
The province and duty of an appellate Court is to erect and maintain clear and well lighted signs, signposts and landmarks so that “he that runs may read”; and by establishing clear and certain standards, thereby eliminate a multiplicity of costly and vexatious suits.