WARNER v. Cortese

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County refusing the appellants’ motion for a summary judgment and grant ing summary judgment to the appellee. The appeal was first taken to the Supreme Court, but by an order dated November 8, 1971, it was transferred to this Court.

The appellants instituted an action in mandamus against the appellee, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, to compel him to accept praecipes for simultaneous entry of default judgment and assessment of damages in eight trespass cases in…