Joseph Palermo Development Corp. v. Bowers

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• recognizing that order granting petition to open or strike default judgment is not final order
• holding that no appeal as of right may be taken from order opening confessed judgment and noting that “only an order refusing to open, vacate or strike off a judgment is immediately appealable”
• explaining that Rule 311 had formerly permitted such appeals before it was amended, effective July 1, 1989
• Rule 311(a)(1) does not authorize an appeal to be taken as of right from an interlocutory order opening a judgment
• “[I]t is well settled that this [C]ourt may sua sponte raise a question as to its own jurisdiction.”
• “An order opening judgment . . . does not end the litigation[.]”

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