Wilson v. Northern Insurance

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

We are here concerned with an appeal by Northern Insurance Company from an order of the Court of Com*157mon Pleas of Dauphin County discharging a rule to show cause why a judgment entered by default in an assumpsit action should not be opened. The action was instituted by Donald D. Wilson and Jean M. Wilson, his wife, to recover the cost of repairs to their dwelling allegedly necessitated by collapse of the building, one of the perils insured against under a policy issued by the appellant. The procedural situation appears in the following excerpt from the opinion1 of…