Case Name: McKee et al. versus Sanford
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1855
Citations: 25 Pa. 105
Docket Number: 
Parties: McKee et al. versus Sanford.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 105–106

Head Matter:
McKee et al. versus Sanford.
The decision of the District Court of Allegheny county, on an application to open a judgment by confession, is not the subject of revision in this Court.
Consent of parties cannot give this Court a jurisdiction which the law has • placed in the discretion of Courts of original jurisdiction.
Error, to the District Court of Allegheny county.
This was a scire facias guare executionem non upon a judgment, which was entered against defendants, March 6,1855, for $255.64. On the 28th June, 1855, the defendants obtained a “rule to show cause why the judgment should not be opened, and the defendants let into a defence.” This rule was discharged by the Court on the 7th July, when a statement of facts was agreed to by the parties, and submitted to the Court, with a stipulation “ that either party should have the right to take a writ of error to the judgment of this Court.”
The only question considered by this Court was, whether the judgment of the District Court on an application to open a judgment by confession is the subject of review here ?
Marshall and Brown, for plaintiffs in error.
Gteyer, for defendant in error.
The arguments of counsel were confined to the facts in the case stated.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Lewis, C. J.
The decision of the District Court on an application to open a judgment by confession, is not the subject of revision here. We have no authority to interfere in such cases, and the parties cannot give us, by consent, a jurisdiction which the law has not conferred. An agreement on the facts, with a provision for a writ of error, does not give us jurisdiction to review the decision of questions which the law places under the discretion of the courts of original jurisdiction.
Judgment affirmed.