Terra Technical Services, LLC v. River Station Land, L.P.

I concur in the result reached by the Court, albeit on different grounds.

The rules governing the filing of complaints based on mechanic’s lien claims are, to my mind, materially ambiguous. On the one hand, Rule 1656, by its terms, contemplates that the filing of such a complaint will commence a new action at a new docket number. It requires that “the court and number and the date of the filing of the [mechanic’s lien] claim” be attached to the complaint, Pa.R.C.P. 1656(2). A requirement along these lines makes little sense in situations where the complaint is filed at the same docket number…