Morris v. Smith

MONTEMURO, Judge:

Plaintiff-appellee, William J. Morris, brought this landlord-tenant action in Philadelphia Municipal Court and obtained a judgment against defendants-appellants, Attia Smith and her children, for $6800.00 in rent,1 plus possession of the premises. Appellant appealed to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. After the complaint, answer and counterclaim, and plaintiffs reply to new matter were filed, plaintiff filed a motion to quash defendants’ appeal to the court of common pleas. The trial court sustained the motion to quash defendants’ appeal on the basis that the…