Green Ridge Bank v. Edwards

SPAETH, Judge:

The question in this case is whether a proceeding to revive a judgment, if it is validly conducted and the revived judgment is duly entered, puts the original judgment beyond reach of a petition to strike or open.

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On September 1, 1972, Richard M. Edwards, Jr., and John W. Edwards executed an installment note in the amount of $76,826.88, payable to one H. W. Persbacker. Persbacker and his wife endorsed the note to appellee, and on March 6, 1973, on appellee’s direction, the Prothonotary of Lackawanna County confessed judgment on the note, as he was empowered to do under the Act…