Somers v. Gross

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when assessing the “underlying cause of action” for purposes of Rule 2252, courts have traditionally considered “the harm of which the plaintiff complains”
• noting that “the proper challenge to joinder is by way of preliminary objection to the joinder complaint”
• “[Rule 2252(a)] permits this joinder and we are not free to disregard the express language of the [R]ule.”
• where plaintiffs sued accountants for giving bad tax advice, accountants could join plaintiffs’ attorney as an additional defendant, because the accountants alleged that any harm to the plaintiffs was the sole fault of the plaintiffs’ attorney
• claims in the underlying complaint and joinder complaint arose from the same course of events where “[t]he transactions involved and the evidence pertinent thereto are the same in time and nature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Babb v. Centre Community Hospital
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-14· cited 40×
• Hileman v. Morelli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-20· cited 20×
• Olson v. Grutza
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-31· cited 17×
• Bianculli v. Turner Construction Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-15· cited 11×
• Goodman v. Kotzen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-12· cited 11×
• Gould, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-08· cited 9×
• Gordon v. Sokolow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-05-26· cited 6×
• Grovatt v. Friedman
  Northampton County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-07-29
• Greiner v. Erie Insurance Exchange
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2001-06-26
• First National Bank v. Kelly
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-01-11
• Gettysburg Area School District v. EI Associates, Architects & Engineers PC
  Adams County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-07-21

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Incollingo v. Ewing
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 339×
• Incollingo v. EWING
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-25· cited 315×
• Austin J. Richards, Inc. v. McClafferty
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-04· cited 22×
• Mentzer & Rhey, Inc. v. Ferrari
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-14· cited 11×
• Garrett Electronics Corp. v. Kampel Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-06· cited 6×