Jay Dee Contractors, Inc. v. National Mine Service Co.

Appellant, National Mine Service Co., Inc., takes this appeal from the order of the court of common pleas dismissing appellant’s petition, in which appellant asked that appel-lee-plaintiffs’ complaint be stricken for failure to prosecute the case, pursuant to Allegheny County Rule of Civil Procedure, Rule 229(e). The hearing court denied appellant’s petition, finding the local rule to be in conflict with Pa.R. J.A. 1901 and thus invalid. Because the present appeal is from a nonappealable, interlocutory order, it must be quashed and, therefore, we do not reach the merits.

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