Balsbaugh v. Zeck

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Patrick J. Dostick, Jr. has appealed an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lebanon County dismissing his suit in mandamus against the Supervisors of Heidelberg Township (township).

The issue is that of whether the court of common pleas erred by rejecting Dostick’s plea that the township was collaterally estopped from defending against *629his action for reinstatement as a patrolman on the police force on the ground that his dismissal from the force was for reasons of economy, by reason of a prior unappealed adjudication by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board holding…