Shadle v. Pearce

MONTGOMERY, Judge:

The Plaintiff-Appellant files the instant appeal from the order of the lower court granting summary judgment in favor of the Defendant-Appellee. The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the lower court erred in finding that the Plaintiff’s claim was barred by the applicable statute of limitations.

The record shows that the case involved a personal injury action brought both in trespass and assumpsit by a patient against his dentist. The action was initiated by a praecipe for writ of summons on December 20,1977. The Defendant filed a rule upon Plaintiff to file a…