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8 Serg. & Rawle 134

Langer v. Parish

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 23, 1822

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1822-04-23

In ERROR. ERROR to the Court,of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county. This case came into the Court of Common Pleas by appeal from' ¿judgment rendered by an alderman, in favour of Robert Parish, plaintiff below, against Joseph Langer. The summons was issued by the alderman on the 1st and was returnable the 6th May, 1820, and judgment was rendered on the 8th.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1835

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Decided 1822-04-23

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¶1This case cannot be distinguished from *135Miller v. Ralston, where the judgment was reversed, because the declaration in the Court of Common Pleas laid the promise of the defendant, at a time subsequent to the entering of the appeal. 1 Serg. Rawle, 309. The very same point was decided, in McLaughlin v. Parker, 3 Serg. & Rawle, 144. In Miller v. Ralston, the Court refused a venire de novo, because there had been no error in the trial of the cause ; and it has been refused in other similar cases. Sending back a record to be amended, is always matter of discretion. If there had been a mere clerical error, there would have been no difficulty in sending it back, or in considering it as amended, without sending it back. But we do not consider it as a clerical error. The judgment must therefore be reversed.

¶2Judgment reversed.

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