30 Pa. Super. 207 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1906
Opinion by
The plaintiffs brought an action against the defendant before a justice of the peace and judgment was entered in their favor on May 17, 1894; a transcript of this judgment was filed and judgment entered in the court of common pleas on November 19, 1895; on April 6, 1904, a scire, facias was issued to revive the judgment in the common pleas; the defendant, on June 16,1904, presented a petition and obtained a rule to show
The order of the court permitting the amendment of the transcript was right; this was not an amendment of the proceedings before the justice, but the correction of mistakes in the transcript so as to make it correctly show what proceedings were had before the justice. When there are mistakes in a transcript they may be, and ought to be, corrected. The judgment is founded upon the record of the justice, and the transcript should be made to truly present that record ; whether it does so is to be determined by the court below, upon inspection of the docket, and all the papers and evidence before them: Caldwell v. Thompson, 1 Rawle, 370; Miles v. Tanner, 3 Penrose & Watts, 95; Lyon v. Chalker, 2 Watts, 14. The first assignment of error is dismissed.
Assuming the proceedings before the justice to have been as set forth by the amended transcript, there was no error in the refusal of the court below to strike off the judgment. The defendant did not in his petition to strike off the judgment allege that he did not owe the debt, nor that the summons issued by the justice had not been served upon him, nor that he did not know, at the time the judgment was entered by the justice in 1894, that said judgment had been so entered. His complaint that the summons issued by the justice was made returnable within a shorter time than allowed by law is not well founded. The summons was issued on May 17
The contention of the appellant that the judgment was void because it was entered against a partnership without setting forth the names of the individual partners, cannot be sustained. While such an objection is good if made in time, the irregularity is cured by a judgment: Seitz & Co. v. Buffum & Co., 14 Pa. 69; McDonald v. Simcox, 98 Pa. 619; Moore v. Moore, 153 Pa. 495.
The other defects in the record of which the appellant complains are irregularities only, not jurisdictional in nature, and while they might have been sufficient to cause the judgment to be set aside, if proper diligence had been used and a writ of certiorari issued within the time prescribed by law, the defendant, having permitted the judgment to stand unquestioned for ten years, must be held to have waived the irregularities: Inquirer Printing Company v. Wehrly, 157 Pa. 415.
The judgment is affirmed.