Case ID: pa_248/html/0129-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Spiese, Appellant, v. Shee.
    
      Practice, Supreme Court — Judgment on warrant, of attorney— Order to strike off — Failure of lower court to state reasons— Record remitted.
    
    When a judgment confessed by virtue of a warrant of attorney is opened or stricken ofi, the court’s reasons for disturbing it must appear with the record when an appeal is taken to the Supreme Court; otherwise the record will be remitted.
    Submitted Jan. 14, 1915.
    Appeal, No. 328, Jan. T.,
    1914, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., March T., 1914, No. 1805, striking off judgment in case of Franklin Spiese v. Rhoads Shee and Harry C. Dunlap and Henry C. Dunlap.
    Before Brown, C. J., Mestrezat, Stewart, Moschzisker and Frazer, JJ.
    Remitted.
    Rule to strike off judgment confessed by virtue of a warrant of attorney. Before Patterson, J.
    The lower court made the rule absolute. Plaintiff appealed.
    
      Error assigned, among others, was in making absolute the rule to strike off the judgment.
    
      Henry J. Scott, for appellant.
    
      Henry A. Hoefler, George S. Russel and George deB. Myers, for appellee.
    
      February 8, 1915:
   Per Curiam,

This appeal is from an order striking off a judgment entered on a warrant of attorney. No opinion was filed by the court below in making the order, and, when the case was called for argument here, it was submitted on the paper books. If we had known, when leave was asked to so submit it, that the court below had given no reason for its action, such leave would not have been granted, but an order would have been promptly made remitting the record, that there might be attached to and returned with it the court’s reason or reasons for striking off the judgment. Except when we assume original jurisdiction we do not exercise it. In the present case we are asked to perform a duty which rested, in the first instance, on the court below, and in remitting the record that such duty may be performed by that court, we do so under what may now be regarded as a settled rule, that whenever a judgment entered on a warrant of attorney is opened or stricken off, the court’s reasons for disturbing it must appear with the record, if an appeal be taken to this court:

Record remitted, with leave to either side to move to advance the hearing of the appeal upon the return of the record with an opinion from the court below stating its reasons for striking off the judgment.