Boniecke v. McGraw-Edison Co.

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, denying defendant-appellants’ motion for summary judgment. The Superior Court, 252 Pa.Super. 467, 381 A.2d 1301, affirmed the order of the lower court, and this Court granted allocatur.

Appellee commenced an action in trespass against appellants after being denied relief under the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act. 1 Appellee alleged that while he was in the employ of appellants, they improperly maintained their premises 2 and exposed him to conditions…