Case Name: Thompson versus M'Connell
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1856-01-14
Citations: 1 Grant 396
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thompson versus M'Connell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Grant)
Volume: 1
Pages: 396–397

Head Matter:
Thompson versus M'Connell.
1. Where not one of the errors is assigned in accordance with the rules of court, it cannot be expected that they will be separately discussed and passed upon.
2. Strictly speaking, even if errors existed, the failure to assign them, as directed by the rules, is a waiver of them; and the judgment is to be affirmed, as a matter of course.
3. Errors not substantially assigned, as required by rules 6th, Tth, and 8th, adopted at Pittsburgh, September 6,1852, published in the Appendix of 6 Harris’s Reports, will be held the same as no assignments at all.
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Greene county.
This was an action of ejectment for sixty-seven acres of land, —a gore — in Wayne township: but the opinion in this court being entirely on the subject of practice, the facts are omitted, tbe opinion being sufficiently explanatory of itself.
January 14, 1856,
Downey and Lazear, for plaintiff in error.
Black and Phelan, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered
by Knox, J.
— We are satisfied with tbe reasons given by the Court of Common Pleas, for tbe instruction to tbe jury to find for tbe plaintiff.
When not one of the errors is assigned in accordance with tbe rules of court, it cannot be expected that they will be separately discussed and passed upon. Strictly speaking, even if errors existed, tbe failure to assign them, as directed by tbe rules, is a waiver of them; and tbe judgment is to be affirmed, as a matter of course. It may be gratifying to tbe plaintiff in error, in this case, to know that be has lost nothing by bis disregard or neglect of our rules, in preparing his paper-book: but it is by no means certain that be would not have been tbe loser, if his ease bad not been hopelessly against bim, under tbe most careful and correct presentation that could have been made of it. We are all agreed, that hereafter errors not substantially assigned, as required by the'6th, 7th and 8th rules adopted at Pittsburgh, September 6, 1852, and to be found in the appendix to 6 Harris, will be held tbe same as no assignments at all.
Judgment affirmed.