Booz v. Reed

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

Tliis action in mandamus was instituted by the plaintiff in an effort to compel the defendant prothonotary of Delaware County to accept for filing in the court of common pleas of that county, without prior court leave sought or obtained as required by the Act of May 17, 1956, P. L. 1626, No. 541, 42 PS §913a, the plaintiff’s transcript on an appeal from a judgment entered against him by a justice of the peace in the sum of $98.12 as damages inflicted by him in an automobile accident.*

In an effort to appeal the judgment entered by the justice of the peace,…