Stephan v. Hudock
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 15, Jan. T., 1897, by defendant, from order of C. P. Luzerne County, June T., 1898, No. 95, discharging rule to open judgment. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened and Mary Hudock let into a defense. Before Lynch, J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Error assigned was refusal to open judgment as to Mary Hudock.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
On December 18, 1891, the defendant and her husband gave their joint promissory note, with confession of judgment, to the *476plaintiff, for a loan of $400. Judgment was entered thereon on May 18, 1893, and on November 29, 1895, she applied for and obtained a rule to show cause why the judgment should not be opened as to her, and she let into a defense. She testified, in support of her application, that her husband borrowed the money for which the note was given; that she did not get any of it, and that her husband used part of it to pay on a contract for the erection of a…
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