CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. SPENCER


139 Pa.Commw. 574 (1991)

591 A.2d 5

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Appellant, v. Gina SPENCER, Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Gray, for appellee.

Alan C. Ostrow, Asst. City Sol., for appellant.

Before CRAIG, President Judge, and BYER, J., and CRUMLISH, Jr., Senior Judge.


BYER, Judge.

This case proves a famous observation. "It [the value of time] is in everybody's mouth, but in few people's practice." Letter from Lord Chesterfield to his son, reprinted in The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language pt. 2, at 127 (1971).

The defendant obtained leave of court to amend its new matter. Two years later, the defendant finally filed its amended new matter. The trial court ordered the amended new matter stricken...

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