Roberts v. Martorano

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Appellant, defendant below, appeals under the Act of March 5, 1925, P. L. 23, §1, 12 P.S. §672 from the denial by the trial court of his preliminary objections which asserted that jurisdiction had not been obtained over the person of appellant. That act provides that the trial court’s decision “may be appealed to the Supreme Court or the Superior Court, as in cases of final judgments.” As a general rule 1 the Superior Court has jurisdiction of an appeal if the amount in controversy is not greater than $10,000 and the subject “of the controversy be either money,…