Certelli v. Braum

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

Defendant appeals from an order refusing to open a judgment entered by confession upon a judgment note. The petition to open the judgment averred that the note represented the same indebtedness as that of two other notes upon which judgments had been entered; that the execution of the obligation in question was procured by duress; and that the consideration, being founded upon gambling transactions and illicit liquor sales, was illegal. Rules to open the judgments entered upon the two other notes were made absolute, but the court refused to interfere with the…