Womeldorf ex rel. Womeldorf v. Cooper

NEWMAN, Judge.

Erin Womeldorf and her father Richard Womeldorf (Womeldorfs) appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County (trial court) that sustained Randall F. Cooper’s (Cooper’s) preliminary objections and dismissed the Womeldorfs’ complaint against him. For the reasons that follow, we quash the appeal.

On October 11, 1991, the Womeldorfs filed a complaint against multiple defendants seeking damages for injuries that Erin sustained in an accident while a passenger in Cooper’s automobile on October 20, 1989. On January 28, 1994, Cooper filed preliminary objections contesting…