Taylor v. Tudor & Free

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

It has been the law in this State for many years that a judgment entered upon a transcript from a justice of the peace cannot be set aside, if regular upon its face, or opened and defendant let into a defense, in the court of common pleas: Lacock v. White, 19 Pa. 495; Boyd v. Miller, 52 Pa. 431; Clark v. M’Comman, 7 W. & S. 469; nor can the transcript be amended in the common pleas: Doerr v. Graybill, 24 Pa. Superior Ct. 321. Any attack upon the validity of such judgment must be made before the justice. The same rule prevails as to judgments of the common pleas certified…