Sherk v. County of Dauphin

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice:

Appellants, Thomas Sherk and Susan Sherk, his wife, appeal from an opinion and order of the Commonwealth Court, 128 Pa.Cmwlth. 150, 562 A.2d 1025, which reversed an order of Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County that overruled prehminary objections in the nature of a demurrer raising the defense of sovereign immunity of appellee Harrisburg State Hospital. The Commonwealth Court remanded the case to the Dauphin County Common Pleas Court with directions to that court to sustain the preliminary objections of Harrisburg State Hospital…