Magee v. Caramella

Citations

• 36 Pa. Super. 56
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 111

Syllabus

<p>Justice of the peace — Appeal—Extension of time for taking appeal.</p> <p>Where a defendant appears at a hearing before a justice of the peace, offers no testimony, and leaves the office of the justice without any inquiry as to what the justice intended to do, and the justice, after the departure of the defendant, and on the same day, enters judgment against the defendant, the twenty days for taking an appeal begins to run from the date of the entry of the judgment, and not from a day ten days thereafter when the defendant first heard of the entry of the judgment. In such a case an appeal taken more than twenty days after the date of the judgment will be quashed and stricken from the record.</p>