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8 Serg. & Rawle 526

Mayes v. Jacoby

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 16, 1822

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1822-09-16

In Error. A RULE having been granted by the Court of Common ^eas °f Washington county, on the plaintiff below, the defendant in error, to shew cause why the appeal entered by _ * i j him in this case, from an award of arbitrators, should not be sct as^ei u appeared, on shewing cause, that on the 10th of March, 1819, the case was referred to arbitrators under the Act of the 20th of March, 1810, who on the 9th of July following, filed an award in favour of the defendants.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1967

2 state decisions

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Decided 1822-09-16

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¶1The opinion of the Court was delivered by

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¶2The appeal was entered on the twenty-first day excluding that on which the award was filed, and, therefore, out of time ; but it is also clear, that the delay of more than two years before the motion to quash, was a waiver of *527all objections that might originally have been made, on the ground of defects arising out of the mere omission of circumstances : such, for instance, as a defective acknowledgment of the recognisance of bail. But it is argued, that the judgment on the award having become absolute on the expiration of the twenty days, no right of appeal existed when the appeal was taken ; and consequently, that as in Morrison v. Weaver, 4 Serg. & Rawle, 190, no acquiescence by the appellee could give jurisdiction to the Common Pleas. But there is this plain difference between that case and the present. In Morrison v. Weaver, the Court had not a general jurisdiction of the subject matter, an appeal in any shape not having been originally given : here, there was a general jurisdiction, which would enable the Court.to entertain an appeal., All that was decided in Morrison v. Weaver was, that the acquiescence of the appellee did not amount to an agreement to consider the cause as an amicable action originating in the Common Pleas, and falling within the original jurisdiction of that Court, when it was evident the parties had not considered it so themselves ; and as to appellate jurisdiction, there was none. Here, however, the Common Pleas had appellate jurisdiction; and the expiration of the time for taking an appeal, furnished an objection which the appellee might waive. I can see no difference between an appeal taken out of season, and an appeal taken without having paid costs, made the requisite affidavit, or given the proper security; and any or all of these may be waived: yet they are conditions precedent, and an appeal without them, is as much a nullity, as if it'were entered after the expiration of the twenty days. In either case, the judgment would be declared absolute, if an objection were made in time.; but any one may dispense with provisions that were intended to operate in his own favour. It is ,clear, then, that the appellee was too late with his motion, and the judgment is affirmed.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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