Pennsylvania Gas & Water Co. v. Lisbon Contractors, Inc.

MONTEMURO, Judge:

This is an appeal from an Order by the court below, sustaining the preliminary objections of the additional defendants/appellees (Consor, Townsend and Associates and Plains Township Sewer Authority) and discharging them as parties. Appellees had challenged, under Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 2253, their joinder by the defendant/appellant (Lisbon Contractors, Inc.). For the reasons discussed below, we find that we agree with both the trial court and the appellees and, accordingly, we affirm.

On April 25, 1978, the plaintiff in the case below (Pennsylvania Gas and…