Court Opinion

ID: 9718207
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:18:50.678997+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:57.957439
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I join the majority’s decision to remand for the purpose of allowing plaintiffs to file a responsive pleading to defendant’s preliminary objections raising a question of jurisdiction. I write separately to observe that this right to file a responsive pleading to preliminary objections exists only where the preliminary objections aver facts and where said preliminary objections have been duly endorsed with a notice to plead. Where preliminary objections averring facts are not endorsed with a notice to plead, the facts averred in the preliminary objections are deemed denied. See: Pa.R.C.P. 1026(a). In such cases, it becomes the burden of the objector to prove the alleged facts via depositions or evidentiary hearing.