Pierce v. Grove Manufacturing Co.

COLLINS, Justice.

Grove Manufacturing Company, Inc., the defendant in a wrongful death action brought by Marie Pierce, seeks an interlocutory appeal of a pretrial discovery order entered by the Superior Court (York County, Fritzsche, J.) under the “death knell” or “collateral order” exceptions to the final judgment rule. This case does not fall within either exception, and therefore the present appeal is dismissed.

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The facts are largely undisputed. In 1986, a steel worker named Jon Pierce was electrocuted to death when a crane carrying a steel beam that Pierce was guiding by hand struck a…