Engel v. Parkway Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

On May 9, 1967, Maxine Engel (decedent) leaped to her death from the roof of “2601 Parkway,” a highrise apartment building operated by the defendant (appellee) Parkway Company. On November 6, 1968, appellant Milton Engel, husband of the deceased, as executor of decedent’s estate and trustee ad litem for the beneficiaries of the estate, instituted a suit against Parkway Company, Friends Hospital and Abraham Freedman, M.D., to recover damages resulting from the death of the decedent. Subsequently, Parkway Company filed preliminary objections in the nature of a…