Case ID: pa-super_194/html/0460-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hicks Appeal.
    
      Argued March 21, 1961.
    Before Rhodes, P. J., Ervin, Weight, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ.
    
      Stanford Shmukler, with him Harry P. Voldow, for appellant.
    
      E. Washington Rhodes, with him Charles Wright, for appellees.
    March 22, 1961:
   Opinion

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal from an order of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia in an adoption case. The statute providing for adoption does not give the right of appeal. See Act of April 4, 1925, P. L. 127, as amended, 1 P.S. §1 et seq. An appeal in an adoption proceeding is in the nature of a certiorari. Maisels Adoption Case, 395 Pa. 329, 332, 149 A. 2d 38 (1959). Under these circumstances, the Act of March 2, 1923, P. L. 3, 17 P.S. §187, giving this Court jurisdiction of appeals from the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, does not give us jurisdiction of appeals from adoption orders in the Municipal Court. Bell Appeal, 396 Pa. 592, 152 A. 2d 731 (1959).

The appeal is therefore certified to the Supreme Court.