Scherbick v. Community College

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

John Scherbick and Elizabeth Scherbick (plaintiffs) filed a complaint in 1.973 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, charging that the Community College of Allegheny County (College), while engaged in construction on property adjacent to plaintiffs’ property, destroyed valuable trees and shrubbery belonging to plaintiffs and altered the drainage flow in the area so as to cause unlawful discharge of drainage water onto plaintiffs’ property. Dick Corporation, the contractor on the job, was joined as an additional defendant by the College.

Subsequently, it was…