Court Opinion

ID: 9638928
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:58:45.0146+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:10.689507
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*561JOHNSON, Judge,
concurring.
I agree that the judgment in favor of Westinghouse Electric Corporation must be affirmed. I have difficulty accepting the majority’s treatment of Count III of plaintiff’s complaint. The majority would treat an inadequate averment of fraud in the original complaint as being incapable of correction following the passing of the limitations period.
The appellant has not raised as error the trial court’s treatment of the fraud allegation. I do not read Del Turco v. Peoples Home Savings Assn., 329 Pa.Super. 258, 478 A.2d 456 (1984), as prohibiting attempts to cure an inadequate pleading merely because the statute of limitations may have run during the interim between the original and the amended pleading.
On my review of the pleadings, I would find that the generalized allegations of fraud contained in plaintiff’s amended complaint do not satisfy the specificity requirements of Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A., 318 Pa.Super. 90, 464 A.2d 1243 (1983). I would, therefore, avoid ruling on a point which was not considered by the distinguished trial judge and was not advanced in appellant’s brief.
McEWEN, J., joins in this concurring statement.