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NON - PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37 DE LAGE LANDEN FINAN CIAL SERVICES, INC., IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Appellee
v. GLORIA FEIJO Appellant No. 153 EDA 2018

Appeal from the Order Entered December 7 , 2017 In the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County Civil Division at No : 2016 - 10159 - CT BEFORE: STABILE, J., STEVENS, P.J.E. * 

### , and STRASSBURGER, J. ** 

### MEMORANDUM BY STABILE, J.: FILED DECEMBER 18, 2018 Appellant, Gloria F eijo, appeals pro se from the Decem b er 7 , 2017 order denying her petition to open a default judgment. We quash . The record reveals that Appellee, De Lage Landen Financial S ervices, Inc., filed a complaint on October 25, 2016 alleging that Appellant breached an equipme nt lease agreem ent . Appellant never filed an answer, and a default judgment was entered against her on January 24, 2017. Appellant filed a pro se petition to open the judgment on May 19, 2017, and Appellee filed its response on June 1, 2017. On June 23, 2017, Appellant filed a pro se reply

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* 

### Former Justice specially assigned to the Superior Court.

** 

### Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.

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and a proposed answer to Appellee’s complaint. The trial court denied the motion on December 7, 2017, and this tim ely appeal follo wed. On January 12, 2018, the trial court ordered Appellant to file and serve on the judge a concise statement of matters complained of on appeal pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b). The certified docket indicates that a copy of the order was sent to all coun sel and unrepresented parties on January 16, 2018. Appellant filed a timely concise statement but failed to serve it on the trial court in accord with Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b)(1) and the express terms of the trial court’s order. Appellant’s failure to serve a c opy of her Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) statement on the trial court results in waiver of the issues she would present on appeal. Forest Highlands Community Ass’n v. Hammer , 879 A.2d 223, 228 - 29 (Pa. Super. 2005) . We are therefore constrained to quash this appeal. Were we to address the merits, however, we would affirm for the reasons stated in the trial court’s Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a) opinion, filed on February 28, 2018. A copy of that opinion is attached. Appeal quashed. Judgment Entered.

Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary

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