People's Trust Co. v. Ehrhart
Citations
- 53 Pa. Super. 319
- 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 174
Syllabus
<p>Justice of the peace — Judgment—Proceedings to obtain possession— Scire facias.</p> <p>1. A justice of the peace has power to issue a scire facias upon a judgment for damages and costs which was rendered by him, or his predecessor in office, in a proceeding instituted by a purchaser at sheriff’s sale to obtain possession of the premises.</p> <p>2. The acts authorizing transcripts of judgments of justices of the peace to be filed in office of the prothonotary, and providing that such judgments thereafter shall have all the force and effect of judgments originally obtained in the court of common pleas, do not comprehend by their terms or intent judgments entered by justices of the peace in possessory proceedings.</p>
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- explaining that the Massachusetts Legislature passed a law prohibiting the repeal of an act from affecting rights accrued or established thereunder
- “The rights of the defendant were ascertained and ixed before this last statute passed, and he cannot thereby be deprived of them.”
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Judges: Head, Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Porter, Rice
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