Rome Sales & Service Station v. Finch

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

When this case was here before—111 Pa. Superior Ct. 226, 169 A. 476,—we said, in affirming the order of the court below refusing to strike off the judgment: “If the defendant has any meritorious defense to the judgment, the same can be disposed of on a petition to open the judgment.”

Shortly after the record was remitted to the court below the defendant presented a petition asking that the judgment be opened on the grounds, inter alia, that prior to the entry of the judgment the plaintiff, H. W. Dimon, trading as Rome Sales & Service Station, had sold and assigned all…