Page v. Patterson

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

Judgment was entered in the county court of Allegheny County in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant in an action of assumpsit for $822.80, in default of an answer.

Following the issuing of an attachment execution and a writ of fieri facias the defendant filed a petition asking the court to open the judgment, dissolve the attachment and stay the writ of fieri facias, and obtained a rule to show cause. The ground set up for this prayer was that the judgment had been entered through no fault or neglect on the part of'- the defendant, but due to inadvertence or…