Barron v. City of Philadelphia

DOYLE, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal by permission taken by the City of Philadelphia, its former Mayor William J. Green, the Managing Director, Finance Director, Personnel Director, and Fire Commissioner, and the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local No. 22 (collectively, the Appellants) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County granting Joseph F. Barron’s “Petition to Strike Judgment on Non Pros for Failure to Appear at the Call of the List.”

The relevant facts are as follows. On April 18, 1983, Barron, a non-union fire officer, filed, on his own…