Sprouse v. Kline-Styer-McCann, Post No. 7155 Veterans of Foreign Wars

Opinion by

Price, J.,

This is an appeal from a lower court order dismissing appellant’s petitions to open and to strike a default judgment rendered against him. The order of the lower court is reversed and the judgment is opened.

On April 2, 1967, plaintiff-appellee William B. Sprouse, the police chief of Trappe Borough, was injured while attempting to make a lawful arrest of a patron of a club located in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Building in Trappe Borough. Appellee’s injuries were caused during a violent dispute with the intended ar-restee, who was intoxicated. The club, or canteen, was *421oper…