Case ID: pa_177/html/0037-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

City of Philadelphia, Appellant, v. West Philadelphia Institute, Owner and Registered Owner.
    
      Practice, 8. 0. — Practice, G. P. — Charge of court — Exceptions.
    An appeal will be quashed where the record shows that no exception was filed in the court below, and that no order was made by the court to the stenographer to file his notes.
    Argued Jan. 9, 1896.
    Appeal, No. 452, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1890, No. 569, on verdict for defendant.
    Before Sterrett, C. J., Green, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell, Dean and Fell, JJ.
    Appeal quashed.
    Scire facias sur municipal claim for taxes. Before Brégy, J.
    At the trial the court gave binding instructions for the defendant. The record showed that no bill of exceptions was taken or filed, and that the stenographer’s notes filed after the appeal was taken were without any certificate by the court below, or order of the court directing them to be filed.
    Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed.
    
      Error assigned was as follows: “ The learned court below erred in directing the jury to render a verdict for the defendant.”
    
      Chester N. Farr, Jr., assistant city solicitor, with him John L. Kinsey, city solicitor, for appellant.
    
      Henry J. Hancock, with him Henry T. Dechert, for appellee.
    It must distinctly appear of record by a certificate of the judge under Ms own band that that part of the record made up by the stenographer is true: Com. v. Arnold, 161 Pa. 820; Connell v. O’Neil, 154 Pa. 588.
    January 9, 1896:
   Per Curiam,

Appeal quashed.