Court Opinion

ID: 9705557
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:11:24.617289+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:34.575896
License: Public Domain

JAMIESON, Judge,
concurring.
I join in the Opinion authored by Judge Hudock. I write separately only to emphasize the point addressed in footnote one of Judge Hudock’s Opinion, to wit: had the parties and the trial court adhered to Rules 1028 and 1030 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, a great deal of time and energy would have been conserved. Moreover, the extended analysis utilized by Judge Hudock, which of necessity examines case law dependent upon the resolution of factual questions, amply illustrates the wisdom of requiring affirmative defenses to be pled as new matter; for affirmative defenses generally require a trial court to resolve factual disputes. On the other hand, in filing a demurrer the moving parties agree to accept the factual statements as pleaded. See generally Williams v. Gruntal & Co., 447 Pa.Super. 357, 669 A.2d 387 (1995). In this case, the chosen procedural posture left critical facts unresolved which must now be determined on record.