Sleeper v. Dougherty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writs of error were issued in the above cases to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, under the following circumstances.
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Writs of error were issued in the above cases to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, under the following circumstances. By an act of assembly passed, on the 28th of March 1835, entitled “ An act to re-establish the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia,” it was declared that “ in all actions instituted in the said Court, on bills, notes, bonds or other instruments of writing for the payment of money and for the recovery of book debts; and in all actions of scire facias on judgments, and on liens of mechanics and material men, under the act of the 17th…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court, in the three cases, was delivered by
Rogers, J.
It is enacted by the act of the 28th of March, 1835, *182that it shall be lawful for the plaintiff, at a time therein designated, on motion, to order a judgment by default; unless the defendant shall have previously filed an affidavit, stating therein, the nature and character of his defence. This act devises a speedy remedy for recovery of debts, in which there is no defence; and it is intended as a substitute for the act of the 20th of March, 1810, entitled an act regulating arbitrations; of which so much as provides for…
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