Barbado v. GREEN & MURPHY, PA

How courts have described this case

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• holding a motion to dismiss tests the legal sufficiency of the complaint and a court may not go beyond the four corners of the complaint in considering the legal sufficiency of the allegations
• reversing where the trial court had conducted independent research in reaching its decision
• reversing final judgment and remanding with directions to reinstate the plaintiffs cause of action where “it was error for the trial court to consider collateral matters and make a determination of whether [the plaintiff] would ultimately be able to prove her case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).