Duquesne Light Co. v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.

Opinion

Per Curiam,

By this appeal we are asked to determine whether the court below was correct when it opened the judg*566meat confessed by appellant against the appellee pursuant to terms of a lease and required the parties to-comply with the arbitration provisions therein contained.

A petition to open a judgment is addressed to the sound discretion of the court and, unless an abuse of such discretion appears, its action will not be reversed. Fogel Refrigerator Company v. Oteri, 391 Pa. 188, 137 A. 2d 225 (1958); Ehnes v. Wagner, 388 Pa. 102, 130 A. 2d 171 (1957).

This confession of judgment…