Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1888

Reading v. Bentley

Reading v. Bentley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided March 12, 1888
2 Monag. 715; 1888 Pa. LEXIS 766

Reading v. Bentley

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Writ quashed.

Note. — The motion in the above case should be stated as a motion to quash the writ because the order was simply an exercise of judicial discretion which is not assignable for error; and the last sentence of the syllabus should be so stated.

The date of argument was March 12, 1888. Paxson, Trunkey and Sterrett, JJ., absent.

In Bach v. Burke, decided April 20, 1891, the supreme court held that the refusal of the court below to make absolute a rule to discontinue, was not reviewable, although the parties, for a valuable consideration, had agreed to a discontinuance.

See also the next case.

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