Propriety of Requests for Admissions Reviewed

In the case of Schryver v. Twp of Smithfield, No. 2933-CV-2018 (C.P. Monroe Co. May 21, 2020 Higgins, J.), the court addressed a Defendant’s objections to Requests for Admissions served by a Plaintiff in a negligence action in which the Plaintiff alleged that the Defendant caused damages to the Plaintiffs by allowing storm water to flow onto the Plaintiffs’ property. 

The Defendant initially objected to the Plaintiff’s Requests for Admissions as being too many in number given that the Plaintiff had served 200 such requests. The court rejected this argument as there is no legal authority to support this argument.

However, the court did strike some duplicative Requests for Admissions. 

The court also accepted the defense argument that some of the other Requests for Admissions were objectionable in that they called for legal conclusions in violation of Pennsylvania law, including the case of Brindley v. Woodland Village Restaurant, Inc., 652 A.2d 865, 871 (Pa. Super. 1995). 

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Source: “Digest of Recent Opinions” Pennsylvania Law Weekly (July 7, 2020).