# Woodward v. Dietrich

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · September 26, 1988 · 378 Pa. Super. 111

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9727606

## Case

- **Full name:** Paul WOODWARD and Patricia Woodward, Husband and Wife, Appellants, v. Raymond DIETRICH and Dorothy Dietrich, Husband and Wife, and Harry L. Smith, T/A R & D Excavating and R & D Tree Service, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** September 26, 1988
- **Citations:** 378 Pa. Super. 111; 548 A.2d 301; 1988 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2949
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Olszewski
- **Judges:** Olszewski, Tamilia, Kelly
- **Cited by:** 53 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9727606

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding that installer of defective sewage line could specially foresee subsequent transfer of property, and that new owners would be unaware of defects
- Noting that our Supreme Court has previously held that “a contractor may be held liable for damages caused by [negligent construction work] despite the absence of privity between the contractor and the homeowner.”

## Opinion text

OLSZEWSKI, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result of this case. I believe that the matter of whether or not Gillespie v. Hunt, 276 Pa. 119 , 119 A. 815 (1923), should be overruled is a matter for our Supreme Court and not this Court as an intermediate appellate court.

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