246 Pa. Super. 445 - Cox v. Hott’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2019
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lamp v. Heyman · Zarlinsky v. Laudenslager · Peterson v. Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. · Yefko v. Ochs · 224 Pa. Super. 552 - Slezynger v. Bischak
Most-quoted passages
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““Rule 1017, Pa.R.C.P., requires that challenges to personal jurisdiction be raised preliminarily: ‘(b) Preliminary objections are available to any party and are limited to (1) a petition raising a question of jurisdiction or venue or attacking the form or service of a writ of summons . . .’ A party must raise preliminary objections ‘within twenty (20) days after service of the preceding pleading.’ Rule 1026, Pa.R.C.P., Radakovich v. Weisman, 241 Pa.Super. 35 , 359 A.2d 426 (filed June 28, 1976). A party who fails to raise a question of the court’s in personam jurisdiction by timely preliminary objections waives that claim. Rule 1032, Pa.R.C.P. That is, ‘[i]t is well-established that a party may waive his objections to personal jurisdiction by consenting to the court’s authority: ‘Jurisdiction of the person may only be obtained, . . . , through consent, waiver or proper service of process.’ [Citations omitted.] “In the instant case, service by complaint was improper because the sheriff did not serve appellee with the writ of summons. [Citations omitted.] Appellee’s failure to raise that issue within 20 days of service of the complaint constituted a waiver. Instead of filing preliminary objections, appellee raised the statute of limitations as new matter. The writ was filed within the applicable period, so that the statute of limitations was tolled. [Citations omitted.] Thus, had appellee filed preliminary objections challenging personal jurisdiction, the appellants could have ”
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