Clinger v. Tilley

POPOVICH, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas dismissing the appellant’s petition to reinstate a complaint. We affirm.

We adopt the trial court’s statement of the facts of this case:

On 10 December 1983, plaintiff Susan M. Clinger attended a make-up demonstration at the Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio. In the course of the demonstration, she sustained an eye injury, allegedly caused by defendant Patricia Tilley’s negligence. On 13 November 1985, plaintiffs counsel, H. William Koch, a member of the firm Koch, Foust & Martin, filed a complaint in the…