Levy v. Gilligan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 324, Jan. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1912, No. 3124, discharging rule to open judgment in the case of Sadie Levy to the use of Rose Levinson to the use of David E. Simon v. Elizabeth Gilligan. Rule to open judgment. Before Audenried, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court discharged the rule. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 324, Jan. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1912, No. 3124, discharging rule to open judgment in the case of Sadie Levy to the use of Rose Levinson to the use of David E. Simon v. Elizabeth Gilligan. Rule to open judgment. Before Audenried, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court discharged the rule. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various findings of fact of the court and the discharge of the rule.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Elkin,
This is an appeal from an order discharging the rule to open a judgment which was entered on a warrant of attorney contained in a judgment note. In the background of this litigation is a young woman, left an orphan when fourteen years of age, a wayward young girl at sixteen, the mother of a child born out of wedlock at eighteen, and at twenty-one, if the judgment be sustained, which is the matter in dispute here, the victim of a scheming woman of mature years without conscience or morals. The woman, Levy, was a trader in commercialized vice and kept a house of…
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