Archbald v. Hood Et Ux.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

In this case the court below made absolute a rule taken by a married woman to open as to her a judgment entered by confession on a note executed by her and her husband. Ordinarily a decision in such a proceeding is for the discretion of the court, but here the question was not one for the exercise of discretion but was governed by legal principles which required, even though all the testimony offered by the petitioner were true, that the rule to open the judgment should be discharged.

In 1923 defendant J. Parke Hood, husband of defendant Marjorie K. Hood, purchased…