Updergraff v. Perry
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- In error from the District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia. ' Dec. 18. The following transcript having been filed under the act of 1840, Pamph. Laws, p. 410, and an execution issued, the District Court, on motion, made, the rule absolute for setting aside th e fi.fa. and judgment. This was assigned for error. ' T , Lycoming county, ss. a ° 1 t the court of Common Pleas of the said . .. . , county, it is thus contained'; Docket Entry.
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- In error from the District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia. ' Dec. 18. The following transcript having been filed under the act of 1840, Pamph. Laws, p. 410, and an execution issued, the District Court, on motion, made, the rule absolute for setting aside th e fi.fa. and judgment. This was assigned for error. ' T , Lycoming county, ss. a ° 1 t the court of Common Pleas of the said . .. . , county, it is thus contained'; Docket Entry. Abraham Updergraff v. William Perry, Andrew Cochran, and John D. Bars. Tax and entry, $1 00, charged pUE Plaintiff, 1 00 . Pro McClure, 1 f > ( i…
1Opinion of the CourtCoulter, J.
The judgment docket is a creation of the actrof 29th March, 1827. It was not intended to supersede the .use of any docket or record which before that time had been kept, and •which had been sanctioned by the courts; but was designed to furnish additional facility-and certainty to the officers, and all.others concerned 'in ascertaining the amount, extent, and duration of liens. Before the act of-1827, the appearance docket and the continuance docket were used in many counties; in others, but one, which was called the appearance docket, in which the continuances, the judgment, and the other…
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