Cruse v. Woods

CERCONE, President Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the lower court denying appellant’s motion to open a default judgment entered against him. We reverse the order of the lower court.

The relevant facts are as follows: The cases involved in these appeals were begun by two separate complaints in equity seeking an adjudication of title to real properties that had been purchased under installment purchase agreements. The home buyers, Mabel Cruse and Jay and Naomi Long had originally signed the installment purchase agreements with Robert Woods, appellant, and payments had initially been…