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· 10/22/1982

Petri v. Smith

Citations

  • 453 A.2d 342
  • 307 Pa. Super. 261
  • 1982 Pa. Super. LEXIS 5484

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • defining the rule as requiring “(1) knowledge of the injury; (2) knowledge of the operative cause of the injury; and (3
  • “Although [plaintiff] was not immediately aware of the nature or extent of the damage, [the fact of the injury] was obvious.”
  • fourteen-year delay between birth of baby and discovery of causative relationship between conduct of delivering doctor and congenital defects held not to raise statute of limitations bar

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Judges: Wickersham, Rowley, Montemuro

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