SAFEGUARD MUTUAL INS. CO. v. COM., 455 Pa. 632 (1973)

303 A.2d 822

Safeguard Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Commonwealth.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Argued May 25, 1972
Decided May 4, 1973

Before JONES, C. J., EAGEN, O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

Appeal, No. 80, May T., 1972, from order of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, No. 278 C.D. of 1971, in re Safeguard Mutual Insurance Company v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Insurance Department. Order affirmed.[*]

Page 633

Same case in Commonwealth Court: 4 Pa. Commw. 477.

Trespass action in Commonwealth Court.

Order entered sustaining defendant’s preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer and dismissing complaint, opinion by ROGERS, J., concurring opinion by CRUMLISH, JR., J. Appeal to Supreme Court allowed.

[*] Reporter’s Note: On October 23, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a petition for a writ of certiorari.

Malcolm H. Waldron, Jr., for appellant.

Charles D. Cowley, Assistant Attorney General, with hi Gerald Gornish, Deputy Attorney General, and J. Shane Creamer, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

OPINION PER CURIAM, May 4, 1973:

Order affirmed.

Mr. Justice ROBERTS, Mr. Justice NIX, and Mr. Justice MANDERINO dissent for the reasons expressed in Biello v. Liquor Control Board, 454 Pa. 179, 187, 301 A.2d 849, 853 (1973) (dissenting opinion by NIX, J., in which ROBERTS, J., joined).