Morena v. South Hills Health System

OPINION

McDermott, justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court, affirming an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County refusing to take off a compulsory nonsuit.1 Both lower courts held that plaintiff, appellant herein, failed to establish a prima facie case of negligence against the defendants. We granted allocatur with respect to the non-*638suit entered in favor of defendants, Blair Haynes, Bill McDoodle and the City of Pittsburgh.

The case arose from the death of Nicola Morena who was shot through the chest by a would-be robber. Anthony Morena, as administrator of…