Adler v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Mr. Chibe Justice Jones,

This appeal by the City of Philadelphia under the Act of March 5, 1925, P. L. 23, Section 1, 12 PS §672, ostensibly questions the lower court’s jurisdiction of the subject-matter. It seems clear, however, that the appellant misconceives the intended scope of the cited statutory provision. The Act of 1925 permits an appeal from an otherwise unappealable interlocutory order for the review of the lower court’s questioned jurisdiction of either the defendant or the subject-matter or both, as the case may be. The facts necessary to an understanding of the question…