Cook v. Highland Water & S. Auth.

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlisi-i, Jr.,

Wayne Cook and Edna Cook et al. (Cook) (No. 15 T.D. 1986), Father Stephen Slavik et al. (Father Slavik) (No. 18 T.D. 1986), and Harold Hochstein et al. (Hochstein) (No. 1778 C.D. 1986) appeal three separate orders of the Cambria County Common Pleas Court denying class action certification. Due to the common genesis of these actions and the identity of the legal issues involved, these appeals have been consolidated for our review.1

Cook, Father Slavik and Hochstein (Appellants) are the unfortunate victims of the 1977 Johnstown Flood, during which…