McCreesh v. City of Philadelphia

Full title: Charles F. McCREESH, Petitioner v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Respondent

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Jun 2, 2004

850 A.2d 629 (Pa. 2004)

850 A.2d 629

Opinion

June 2, 2004.

Petition for Allowance of Appeal No. 50 EAL 2004 from Order of the Commonwealth Court.

Prior report: Pa.Cmwlth., 839 A.2d 1206.

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 2nd day of June 2004, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED to the following issue:

Whether, in light of Lamp v. Heyman, 469 Pa. 465, 366 A.2d 882 (1976) and its progeny, a plaintiff should be permitted to have a writ of summons reissued when that writ was originally filed prior to the running of the statute of limitations but ineffectively served?