Case Name: Joseph FRIEDMAN and Frida Friedman, Appellants, v. Victor I. KASSER and Barbara Kasser and Leonard Feldman and Bernice Feldman
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1981-12-18
Citations: 293 Pa. Super. 294
Docket Number: No. 2823
Parties: Joseph FRIEDMAN and Frida Friedman, Appellants, v. Victor I. KASSER and Barbara Kasser and Leonard Feldman and Bernice Feldman.
Judges: Before MONTEMURO, HOFFMAN and VAN der VOORT, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 293
Pages: 294–297

Head Matter:
438 A.2d 1001
Joseph FRIEDMAN and Frida Friedman, Appellants, v. Victor I. KASSER and Barbara Kasser and Leonard Feldman and Bernice Feldman.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued May 12, 1981.
Filed Dec. 18, 1981.
Milton S. Lazaroff, Philadelphia, for appellants.
Abraham C. Reich, Philadelphia, for appellees.
Before MONTEMURO, HOFFMAN and VAN der VOORT, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Because no final decree in equity was entered on the docket below we cannot reach the merits and, accordingly, quash this appeal. A lower court's direction to enter a specified order, unaccompanied by actual entry of the specified order on the docket, is interlocutory and not appealable and must be reduced to judgment and docketed before an appeal can be taken. Pa.R.A.P. 301(c). See Coren v. DiDomenico, 291 Pa. Superior Ct. 331, 435 A.2d 1252 (1981). The order appealed from merely states that the decree nisi "shall be entered on praecipe." No final decree was ever entered. Consequently, we must quash this appeal. Murray v. Abcon, Inc., 291 Pa. Superior Ct. 428, 435 A.2d 1301 (1981); Mercadante v. Ranieli, 271 Pa. Superior Ct. 565, 414 A.2d 397 (1979).
Appeal quashed.
MONTEMURO, J., files a dissenting opinion.