KDI Sylvan Pools, Inc. v. Delta Plastics Co.

HESTER, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Common Pleas Court of Bucks County opening a default judgment.

Appellant initiated this assumpsit action via complaint on October 12, 1976. Service was effected through the Secre*237tary of the Commonwealth on appellee (a California corporation) three days later. The suit papers eventually arrived at the Philadelphia office of appellee’s insurance carrier on November 16, 1976. The answer to the complaint already overdue, appellee’s insurance carrier contacted appellant’s counsel and secured, apparently, an unlimited extension of time. However,…