McKee v. Sanford

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

McKee v. Sanford

25 Pa. 105

CourtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania

DecidedJuly 1, 1855

StatusPublished

Cited by2 cases

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McKee v. Sanford, 25 Pa. 105 (Pa. 1855).

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The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Lewis, C. J.

The decision of the District Court on an application to open a judgment by confession, is not the subject of revision here. We have no authority to interfere in such cases, and the parties cannot give us, by consent, a jurisdiction which the law has not conferred. An agreement on the facts, with a provision for a writ of error, does not give us jurisdiction to review [106]*106the decision of questions which the law places under the discretion of the courts of original jurisdiction.

Judgment affirmed.

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The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Lewis, C. J.

The decision of the District Court on an application to open a judgment by confession, is not the subject of revision here. We have no authority to interfere in such cases, and the parties cannot give us, by consent, a jurisdiction which the law has not conferred. An agreement on the facts, with a provision for a writ of error, does not give us jurisdiction to review [106]*106the decision of questions which the law places under the discretion of the courts of original jurisdiction.

Judgment affirmed.

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25 Pa. 105, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/mckee-v-sanford-pa-1855.

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