Flyte v. Stover
Flyte v. Stover
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The able argument of the counsel for the appellant in this court was directed to certain alleged defects in the record of the alderman in the dispossession proceedings instituted by the defendant against the plaintiff, which formed the basis of the present action in trespass. It was contended that under the authority of Hickey v. Conley, 24 Pa. Superior Ct. 388, the judgment of the alderman was void and the consequent dispossession an unlawful eviction for which the landlord, the defendant in this case, was liable in an action of trespass.
An examination of so much of the alderman’s record in the dispossession proceedings as was brought up with the record in this case and printed in the appellant’s paper-book, would seem to disclose certain defects which, if contained in the whole record, under the ruling of the
It has been frequently decided by the Supreme Court that an appellate court will not review a case on a theory different from that upon which it was tried by the court below, nor consider questions which were not raised in the lower court, but were argued for the first time on appeal: Armstrong & Latta v. Phila., 219 Pa. 39; Weiskircher v. Connelly, 256 Pa. 387; Hurt v. Fuller Canneries Co., 263 Pa. 238.
As the case was presented in the pleadings and on the trial in the court below it was not error to reject the evidence offered as to the value of the furniture on the prem
For the above reasons and without intending in any manner to depart from our ruling in Hickey v. Conley, supra, the assignments of error are overruled and the judgment is affirmed.
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- Practice, Superior Court — Appeals—Questions not raised in court below. The Superior Court will not review a case on a theory different from that on which it was tried in the court below, nor will it consider. questions which were argued for the first time on appeal. Although the record of an alderman in dispossession proceedings may contain defects which would render them so irregular as not to sustain the warrant of possession and require them to be set aside on certiorari, or justify an action in trespass for the unlawful eviction based on such irregular and void proceedings, yet if the plaintiff in such action of trespass bases his right to recover not on the defective record but on matters going to the merits of the proceedings, and the action is tried on that basis in the lower court, the appellate court will not consider objections to the record in the dispossession proceedings not raised by the pleadings nor passed upon by the court below., Hickey v. Conley, 24 Pa. Superior Ct. 388, distinguished.