223 Pa. 315 | Pa. | 1909
Opinion by
From the appellants’ history of the case, we learn that the appellee presented a bill with accompanying affidavits to the court below on September 19; 1908, and thereupon the court granted a special or preliminary injunction; that a hearing was had three days after the special injunction was granted, and five days thereafter the court continued the injunction. In the appendix to the appellants’ paper-book are printed an answer and an amended answer to the appellee’s bill. The jurat is dated September 22, 1908, but there is nothing in the paper-book to show when the answers were filed. It appears that testimony was taken by both parties before the court on September 22, 1908. Thereafter, on September 28, 1908, after the answers had been filed, testimony had been taken and the parties had been heard, the court continued the special or preliminary injunction, imposing certain conditions on the appellee.
This is an appeal taken under the Act of February 14, 1866, P. L. 28, 2 Purd. (13th ed.) 1424, which authorizes an appeal from the granting of a special injunction and directs that it shall be heard by the Supreme Court in any district in which it may be in session. The defendants have taken the appeal and have printed two assignments of error as follows: First. The court erred in granting the preliminary injunction, because it is mandatory. Second. The Court erred in granting the preliminary injunction, because the property of the defendants can only be taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
The assignments of error are wholly insufficient and cannot be considered or sustained. They fail to set out the decree from which the appeal was taken and in which it is claimed there is
The appellants not only have neglected to incorporate in the assignments of error the decree awarding the special or preliminary injunction, but also have failed to print the decree itself or the injunction issued thereon in any part of their paper-book, and hence we do not have the decree or injunction before us. This is a palpable violation of our rules of court, and prevents us from considering the decree and determining whether or not it is erroneous. It is obvious that without having the decree
The appellants’ paper-book was evidently prepared in haste, and without due regard to the rules of court. Rule 25 of this court requires the appellant to print in his paper-book the docket entries in the court below and the decree made by that court. As observed above, the decree from which this appeal is taken is not printed in any part of the paper-book, and the appellants have failed to print the docket entries. The court regards it as essential and necessary in the consideration of the case. We have distinctly said that the appellants’ paper-book must contain a literal copy of the docket entries as they appear upon the record of the court below: Bristor v. Tasker, 135 Pa. 110; Trescott v. Co-operative Building Bank of New York, 212 Pa. 47. We are compelled in this case to rely upon the history of the case for matters which would have been disclosed by the docket entries if they had been printed.
The assignments of error are overruled, and the decree of the court below awarding a special or preliminary injunction is affirmed.