DocketNumber: Appeal, 42
Judges: Schaffer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern, Patterson, Parker
Filed Date: 3/31/1941
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/19/2024
This is an appeal from a judgment in mandamus proceedings commanding the respondent, the controller of Cambria County, to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $61.40, being two per cent commission on taxes returned *Page 485 by him and later paid to the county treasurer. The appeal should have been to the Superior Court.
By paragraph 7 [c] of the Act of June 24, 1895, P. L. 212, as amended (17 Pa.C.S.A. § 184), it is provided that the Superior Court shall have exclusive and final jurisdiction of appeals which were then allowed to the Supreme Court in "any action, claim, distribution, or dispute of any kind in the common pleas, at law or in equity, . . . if the subject of the controversy be either money, chattels, real or personal, or the possession of or title to real property, and if also the amount or value thereof really in controversy be not greater than twenty-five hundred dollars." This act was subsequent to the Act of June 8, 1893, P. L. 345, § 29 (12 Pa.C.S.A. § 1975), providing for an appeal in mandamus proceedings to this court. The Superior Court has consistently, and we think properly, assumed jurisdiction in cases like the present one: Com. ex rel. v. Diamond NationalBank,
That line of cases is not to be confused with those in which the value of the right sought to be enforced cannot be expressed in money, of which Neubert v. Armstrong Water Co.,
This case is certified to the Superior Court for hearing and decision.