Moring v. Dunne

BECK, Judge:

The threshold issue on appeal is whether the lower court properly granted appellants’ petitions for leave to file a notice of appeal nunc pro tunc. We hold that these petitions were erroneously granted and therefore quash the appeals as untimely filed.

On October 23, 1973, at approximately 11:45 p.m., in the Allan’s Alley bar in Philadelphia, Joseph Moring was shot and critically wounded by William Dunne, a Philadelphia police officer, following a series of physical confrontations between the two men. Moring filed a complaint in trespass against Dunne and the City of Philadelphia…