Borough of Colwyn v. Tarbotton
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 31, Nov. T., 1895, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 39, affirming judgment of chief burgess, on certiorari and exceptions to return. Certiorari and exceptions to return of chief burgess of the borough of Colwyn, in a suit for a penalty for violating a borough ordinance.
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Appeal, No. 31, Nov. T., 1895, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 39, affirming judgment of chief burgess, on certiorari and exceptions to return. Certiorari and exceptions to return of chief burgess of the borough of Colwyn, in a suit for a penalty for violating a borough ordinance. Judgment for plaintiff for $20. The exceptions to the return were as follows: (1) Because the record does not set out the ordinance U2ider which suit was brought and judgment rendered; (2) abandoned; (3) because the chief burgess of a borough has no jurisdiction in civil suits…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal from the judgment of the court of common pleas, affirming the judgment of the burgess of the plaintiff borough in a suit for a penalty for the violation of a borough ordinance. The first question that confronts us, although it was not raised by the counsel on the argument of the case, is whether an appeal to this court lies in such a ease.
The expressed intention of the act creating this court (act of June 24, 1895, P. L. 212) was to confer “ exclusive and final appellate jurisdiction of all appeals which are now allowed to the Supreme Court in the…
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