Captline v. County of Allegheny

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Carol M. Captline and Equibank, N.A., co-executors of the Estate of Mike Mazzaro (collectively, Mazzaro), appeal from the December 21, 1995 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) denying Mazzaro’s Petition to Open Judgment which Mazzaro filed after the trial court granted the County of Allegheny’s (County) Petition to Non Pros.

The property at the center of this suit is approximately 105 acres of land in Findlay Township which has been owned continuously by Mike Mazzaro and his heirs since at least the 1960s. The property was used as a landfill in…