Legal Opinion
Duffy v. Gerst
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 1, 1981No. 744PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPAETH, Judge:
This is an appeal from an order denying a petition to strike or open a default judgment. So far as the order denies the petition to strike, we shall affirm, for we find no such defect on the face of the record as warrants striking the judgment. So far as the order denies the petition to open, however, we shall reverse and remand for further proceedings as provided by Pa.R.C.P. 209, for we have concluded that the lower court should not have ruled on the basis of the petition and answer alone.
On June 2, 1978, appellants, Kenneth C. Gerst and Ralph D. Tamburro, entered into an…
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