Manack v. Sandlin

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• holding that defendant waived issue of lack of personal jurisdiction when he failed to raise the issue “by preliminary objections or in his Motion to Vacate Default Judgment”
• holding that the trial order denying a motion to vacate the default judgment, entered after an appeal of the default judgment had been filed, was null and void because it did not constitute a corrective order
• concluding that “[a] major substantive change, such as the total withdrawal of an order relative to a motion of record[,] does not constitute a corrective order within the inherent powers of the trial court or the court’s statutory authority”
• explaining that the trial court retains the inherent power “to amend its records, to correct mistakes of the clerk or other officer of the court, inadvertencies of counsel, or supply defects or omissions in the record.” at any time
• applying this standard of review to a trial court’s verdict following its decision on appeal from a compulsory arbitration decision
• trial court had authority under Rule 1701 to change date of non -jury trial and verdict on order to reflect correct date after thirty days elapsed from entry of original order and where appeal had been filed

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