Court Opinion

ID: 9757428
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 22:40:18.550537+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:39.327119
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ROBERTS, Justice
(dissenting).
Appellants filed their appeal No. 169 within 30 days of the date appellee entered judgment and their appeal was thus timely taken. I therefore dissent from the order quashing the appeal.
The majority cites the correct statute and rule which determine the timeliness of the appeal. Nevertheless, it reaches the wrong conclusion because it fails to recognize that where an order of a court, whether sitting in equity or law, awards a party damages, the appeal lies not from the order but from the entry of judgment. Until the award is reduced to a judgment, there is no basis for appeal. Shellem v. Springfield School District, 6 Pa. *197Cmwlth.Ct. 527, 297 A.2d 179 (1972); Roy v. North Braddock School District, 4 Pa.Cmwlth.Ct. 237, 285 A.2d 550 (1971) (per Manderino, J). Indeed, had appellants brought this appeal prior to the entry of judgment, this appeal would have been quashed as premature. Rissi v. Levan, 430 Pa. 376, 243 A.2d 353 (1968). Since appellants filed their appeal within 30 days of the entry of judgment, their appeal is timely and should be considered. The merits of this appeal therefore should be reached.
Appellee filed exceptions to the post-accounting adjudication in which he asked the court to make Autotrols, Inc., and three other shareholders of that corporation jointly and severally liable for the judgment against Richard Frost. The court en banc dismissed the exception. However the court failed to make clear in its decree that judgment was against only Richard Frost. Accordingly appellee entered judgment against all appellants.
Appellants ask us to remand this case to the court en banc so that its decree can be made to conform with the dismissal of exceptions and the judgment against all parties other than Richard Frost stricken Appellants are clearly entitled to this and I would grant them the requested relief. Since the majority fails to do so, I dissent.
I also dissent from the majority’s resolution of appeal No. 138.