Case Name: Hicks Appeal
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1961-03-22
Citations: 194 Pa. Super. 460
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 43
Parties: Hicks Appeal.
Judges: Before Rhodes, P. J., Ervin, Weight, Woodside, Watkins, Montgomery, and Flood, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 194
Pages: 460–462

Head Matter:
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:
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.