Bertolet v. Lanard

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The plaintiff, William H. Bertolet, Jr., formerly a director and stockholder of the Pilgrim Title & Trust Company, brought this action to recover certain moneys from Thomas Lanard, an attorney and also formerly a director and stockholder of the same trust company. The court below entered judgment against Lanard for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, upon the ground that a certain judgment obtained in the court below by Bernard N. Levene, a third director of the corporation, against Lanard in 1936, and affirmed by both appellate courts (126 Pa. Superior Ct.…