Commercial Banking Corp. v. Culp

CAVANAUGH, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellants’ petition for nunc pro tunc joinder of an additional party. Such an order is a final order and appealable pursuant to Rule 341(a), Pennsylvania Rules of Appellate Procedure.1

Our inquiry must begin with a review of the facts and the pleadings. On June 14, 1974, Joel W. Culp and his wife, Wilma B. Culp, appellants herein, placed a mortgage on their property at 1015 Pecan Drive, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, with Industrial Valley Bank (hereinafter “IVB”), appellee herein. IVB immediately transferred the mortgage to Commercial Bank…