Ray v. Pennsylvania State Police

SMITH, Judge.

Nancy J. Ray appeals from the December 9, 1998 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County sustaining the preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer filed by the Pennsylvania State Police, Lieutenant Matthew E. Hunt, Trooper Harding, Trooper John Ridge, and Trooper Les Freeling (collectively Defendants) and dismissing Ray’s complaint for emotional distress arising out of the alleged mishandling of her daughter’s remains and failure to turn those remains over to Ray for burial. The Defendants filed their preliminary objections raising, in pertinent part, the…