Lee v. Cel-Pek Industries, Inc.

WATKINS, President Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County dismissing the appeal of the defendants-appellants, Cel-Pek Industries, Inc., from an award of arbitration in favor of the plaintiff-appellee, Augustine K. Lee, individually and trading as Lee’s Karate Institute, in the amount of $3000.00.

The plaintiff instituted an action in trespass claiming damages in an amount not to exceed $3000.00. The defendant filed a timely counterclaim of $199.00.- The matter was submitted to arbitration and on the day scheduled for the arbitration hearing the…