Court Opinion

ID: 9707047
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:59:42.669396+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:27.372241
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Mb. Justice Cohen:
The majority opinion permits the Commonwealth to win this case by the rigid application of the law without a recognition of the realities of the problem. Unfortunately, our statutes and procedural rules do not deal with this exact situation. Accordingly, the solution should depend upon our exercise of judicial administration. The situation here is quite different from the case where a remissive plaintiff asks the Court to excuse him from the consequences of his own negli*213gent or deliberate delay. Here the plaintiff will suffer, the majority holds, not as the result of some negligent act or delay indulged in by the plaintiff, but because of the action of the defendant done without notice to plaintiff which started the running of a period of limitation of which the plaintiff was unaware. Granted, we have no rule or statute requiring the defendant to serve notice upon the plaintiff of the entry of a judgment; such a rule might not be necessary when the defendant is the verdict-winner. But where the defendant is the loser, as the Commonwealth was in this case and enters the judgment in favor of the plaintiff without notice to the plaintiff and starts the running of the limitation period, proper judicial administration requires relief.
I dissent from the Court’s action in quashing this appeal.