Puleo v. Broad Street Hospital

WIEAND, Judge:

This is an appeal from the entry of a judgment on the pleadings in favor of defendant-appellees on the grounds that plaintiff-appellant’s cause of action was barred by the statute of limitations.

Plaintiff’s action was commenced on April 13, 1976 by the filing of a praecipe for summons in trespass against Broad Street Hospital and Dr. Eugene Spitz. By complaint thereafter filed, the plaintiff, Louis D. Puleo, charged that unnecessary surgery had been performed on his back on May 30, 1973 and again on June 8,1973. Spitz and the Hospital filed separate answers in which they…