Crawford v. Manhattan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court in which it is “. . . ordered and decreed that judgment n.o.v. be entered in behalf of the defendant. . . .” This order does not enter judgment but, evidently, directs the prothonotary, or clerk of the court, to enter the formal judgment. Cf. Watkins v. Neff, 287 Pa. 202, 134 A. 625 (1926). The record in the present appeal reveals, however, that final judgment had not been entered when the appeal was taken nor at any time thereafter.

Our Supreme Court stated in Hartigan v. Clark, 401 Pa. 594, 602, 165 A. 2d 647, 651…