Legal Opinion
Smith v. Lenchner
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 16, 1964No. Appeal, 240PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Wright,. J.,
We are here concerned with an appeal by Martin B. Smith from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County making absolute a rule to open a judgment entered by confession on a note.
The note in question is dated July 6, 1962, in -amount of $1,200.00 payable on demand, and is under seal. The petition for the rule alleges that the maker of the note is not indebted to the payee, and requests that the judgment.be opened because (a) the note was given “under duress, of a threat made by the plaintiff to maliciously and falsely interfere with and disrupt a business…
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