Case Name: Leavitte et al., Appellant, v. Drive-It-Yourself Company
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1925-12-14
Citations: 86 Pa. Super. 548
Docket Number: Appeal No. 326
Parties: Leavitte et al., Appellant, v. Drive-It-Yourself Company.
Judges: Before Porter, Henderson, Trexler, Keller, Linn and Gawthrop, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 86
Pages: 548–550

Head Matter:
Leavitte et al., Appellant, v. Drive-It-Yourself Company.
Argued November 12,1925.
Before Porter, Henderson, Trexler, Keller, Linn and Gawthrop, JJ.
December 14, 1925:
Before Stern, J. and Gordon, J.
James Yearsley, for appellant.
Franje A. Chalmers, and with him Millard K. Goe, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
This foreign attachment in .assumpsit was issued to recover the price of certain sponges and chamois sold and delivered the defendant. The appeal is taken from the refusal of the court below to enter judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly s,aid that an appeal in such case is intended to reach only clear cases of error in law and prevent the delay incident to a trial: Wilson v. Bryn Mawr Trust Co., 225 Pa. 143; Griffith v. Sitgreaves, 81 Pa. 378; Kidder Elevator Interlock Co. v. Muckle, 198 Pa. 388. In Holland v. Iron Works, 9 Pa. Superior Ct. 261, after referring to the above rule, we said: "Appeals, such as this, not infrequently result in greater delay than procedure in due course to a trial. They should not be encouraged. ' '
After reading the statement of claim and the affidavit of defense, and giving full consideration to the argument of counsel for the appellant, we cannot say it is "clear and free from doubt" that the court below erred in the order complained of; and following the practice of the Supreme Court (Brown v. Unger, 269 Pa. 471, 472; Snyder v. Baer, 282 Pa. 291, 292) we shall not discuss the facts or the applicable rules of law until called upon to do so after an opportunity is had to develop the former at trial.
The appeal is dismissed, without prejudice, etc.