Pawco, Inc. v. Bergman Knitting Mills, Inc.

SPAETH, Judge:

This is a landlord-tenant case. The lower court refused to strike or open judgments confessed by the landlord for ejectment and monetary damages (the court reduced the latter judgment from $76,810.16 to $69,580.91). On the tenant’s appeal, a panel of this court (VAN der VOORT, WIEAND and LIPEZ, JJ.) affirmed the orders refusing to strike, but reversed the orders refusing to open the judgments. On the landlord’s petition, we granted reargument before this court en banc as to whether the judgments should be opened.

The tenant is Bergman Knitting Mills, Inc. For a good many years,…