Elizabethtown Lodge No. 596 v. Ellis

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County discharging rules to strike off and to open a judgment entered by confession in an amicable action of ejectment and granting a rule by the appellee to amend nunc pro tunc its petition for leave to enter judgment.

The material facts, which are not in dispute, are as follows: On April 16, 1940, the appellant, Edwin J. Ellis, and the appellee, lessor, Elizabethtown Lodge No. 596, Loyal Order of Moose, entered into a written lease prepared by the lessor, covering an unimproved lot in the…