Szeits v. Chriss

Citations

• 75 Pa. Super. 159
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 239

Syllabus

<p>Actions — Parties—Alien citizens — Alleged disqualification.</p> <p>The fact that a plaintiff is not a citizen of the United States does not deprive him of the right to sue in the courts of this Commonwealth or be sued therein.</p> <p>Where the nature of the plaintiff’s citizenship did not appear in the pleadings, and was not introduced in evidence at the trial, and the defendant went to trial upon the merits, and raised no question as to the qualification of the plaintiff to maintain the action, until after the. fact had been determined against him, he cannot afterwards present a question which ought to have been made by a plea in abatement or set up in his answer.</p>