Epinger, Admx. v. Wade

The principal question presented by the record is whether, in a wrongful death action brought by the personal representative of the decedent who was killed in a collision between decedent’s automobile and that of the defendant, such defendant has a right to prosecute in the same suit a cross-action for his own personal injuries sustained in the same collision. An incidental question is whether the action of the Common Pleas Court in striking such cross-petition from the original action and docketing it as a separate' and independent action constitutes a final order from which an appeal may be…