Zeck v. Balsbaugh

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

This is an appeal by the Board of Supervisors, Heidelberg Township (Board) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lebanon County dismissing the Board’s Motion to Open Peremptory Judgment. For the reasons which follow, we reverse and remand.

Following negotiations between the Board and the Heidelberg Township Police Department, a collective bargaining agreement was adopted by the Township and the officers of the township police department in January, 1981. Appellees, Robert L. Balsbaugh and Patrick J. Dostick, Jr. (Officers) are among the members of that department…