Grosso v. Love

NARICK, Senior Judge.

Richard E. Grosso (Appellant) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County (common pleas court) which sua sponte dismissed Appellant’s complaint against William J. Love, Superintendent and C. Shea, Inmate Accountant (Commonwealth) as frivolous, time-barred, and repetitious. We vacate and remand.

Appellant, while an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon (SCI-Huntingdon), swallowed a coin during a family visit in June 1989. As a result, Appellant was transported to a local hospital and incurred over $1200 in hospital costs.…