Olson v. Grutza

POPOVICH, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County sustaining appellees’ preliminary objections to appellants’ request to amend a joinder complaint for claims of spoliation of evidence and for claims sounding in negligence. We are asked to determine whether the lower court committed an error of law or abused its discretion in sustaining appellees’ preliminary objections. We affirm.

The standard of review of an appellate court in passing on a challenge to sustaining of a preliminary objection in the nature of a demurrer is whether on the…