Shelly v. Dampman
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 29, Nov. T., 1895, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Feb. Term, 1893, No. 85, non obstante veredicto in favor of defendant. Trespass for libel in publishing plaintiff as keeper of a bawdy-house. John B. Dampman, on or about the first day of December, A. D. 1892, was the editor of the Reading Morning Herald, a daily newspaper published in the city of Reading.
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Appeal No. 29, Nov. T., 1895, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Feb. Term, 1893, No. 85, non obstante veredicto in favor of defendant. Trespass for libel in publishing plaintiff as keeper of a bawdy-house. John B. Dampman, on or about the first day of December, A. D. 1892, was the editor of the Reading Morning Herald, a daily newspaper published in the city of Reading. Deborah Shelly was at the same time a resident of said city, a widow, of acknowledged respectability, living with her daughter at No. 954 Muhlenberg street. About November 30, 1892, one John C. Zuber and Mrs. Emma…
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Opinion by
Wickham, J.,
The first matter claiming attention, in this case, is the appellant’s motion to quash the appeal, based on the following clause from the 8th section of the act of June 24, 1895, creating the Superior Court, to wit: “ An appeal to the Superior Court must be taken and perfected within three calendar months from the day when the judgment, sentence, order or decree appealed from was entered in the court below, otherwise the appeal shall be quashed upon motion.”
It appears from the record that the judgment, in the court below, was entered on March 18,1895, although the…
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