Morrison v. Dept. of Public Welfare

*248SMITH, Judge.

Shirley A. Morrison appeals from a post-trial order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County granting Schleifer’s Ambulance Services (Ambulance Service) a new trial. The issue raised in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in granting a new trial because evidence pertaining to the conduct of the ambulance crew immediately after a passenger escaped from the ambulance and fell to his death was improperly admitted into evidence. For the following reasons, the trial court is reversed.1

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On July 29, 1986, Mrs. Morrison’s husband, George Morrison, was being transported…