Forest Hills Transfer & Storage Co. v. Beaver Valley Builders Supply, Inc.

CERCONE, President Judge:

Appellant takes this appeal from the lower court’s denial of appellant’s petition to open a default judgment entered against appellant on February 3, 1977. We find that the lower court abused its discretion by refusing to open judgment and we reverse.

On April 1, 1976, State Trooper James Ferens stopped a dump truck, owned by appellant, Beaver Valley Builders Supply, Inc. (Beaver Valley), while it was traveling on the William Penn Parkway East near the Wilkinsburg Exit. Because he believed the truck to be overloaded, Trooper Ferens told the driver of appellant’s truck,…