Hepler v. Urban

OPINION OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

We granted the petition for allowance of appeal filed by appellant, Mable Hepler, to determine whether placement of the letters “N.S.” on the blueback attached to an order of court granting a motion for summary judgment fulfills our procedural requirement that the prothonotary, for purposes of determining when such an order becomes final, place a notation in the docket that notice of the entry of the court order has been sent to the parties. Pa.R.Civ.P. Rule 236, Pa.R.A.P. Rules 108(b) and 301(a).

In 1974, appellees, Anthony J. and Susan I. Urban, purchased…