Strickler v. United Elevator Co. (Inc.)

JACOBS, Judge:

This is an appeal by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust from an order of the lower court dismissing its peti tion to open and/or strike the default judgment entered against it on January 19, 1976. For the reasons developed below, we reverse.

The essential facts of this case are not in dispute and may be summarized as follows: On June 20, 1974, Herman Strickler, a 93 year old tenant in Pennsylvania’s apartment house, sustained personal injuries when he fell while entering an elevator on the sixth floor of the building. Mr. Strickler and his wife Pauline thereafter commenced…