Opinion

Sevast v. Kakouras

  • 580 Pa. 352
  • 861 A.2d 257
  • 2004 Pa. LEXIS 2305
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Oct 6, 2004
Status
Published
On the bench
Per Curiam
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 60.3%

The opinion

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 6th day of October, 2004, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby granted, limited to the following issues:

Whether the Superior Court’s decision on an issue of first impression has the disastrous consequence of exposing estate beneficiaries to indefinite liability as a result of its conclusion that the statute of limitations on a claim under section 374 of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts begins to run

“only when

the value of performance exceeds the loss caused by the breach”?

Whether the Superior Court radically departed from the long-standing rule that summary judgment motions should be granted only in clear cases when it assumed material

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facts not of record, and based on those assumptions, granted restitution to Respondent in the amount of $121,178.15? Whether the Superior Court departed from its own precedent in

Brown v. Candelora,

708 A.2d 104 (Pa.Super.1998), by concluding that the amount of restitution was subject to garnishment when it failed to consider the fair rental value of the judgment debtor’s decade-long possession of a valuable commercial property?

We also request the parties to brief the following issue:

Whether Pennsylvania should permit a breaching party to bring a restitution claim pursuant to section 374 of the Second Restatement of Contracts?

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