Vandegrift v. Knights Road Industrial Park, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

O’BRIEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Civil Action, Law, granting appellee’s motion to take off judgment. The question presented asks whether one of multiple defendants in a trespass action, not served with process, remains subject to valid service of process after the plaintiff’s action has been non prossed for failure to proceed. The unusual procedural history of the case is as follows.

On March 5, 1976, three days prior to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations, Anna M. Vandegrift, a/k/a…