Mentzer & Rhey, Inc. v. Ferrari

JOHNSON, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the trial court sustaining preliminary objections to appellant’s complaint to join additional defendants. The issue raised is whether attorneys who performed a title search for buyers of property may be properly joined as third-party defendants under Pa.R.C.P. 2252(a) when the buyers sue the seller for damages resulting from an allegedly fraudulently concealed and defective culvert and the attorneys failed to discover the existence of the culvert in their title search. We now affirm the order of the trial court.

Appellant Bruno Ferrari, the…