Rose v. Allentown Morning Call

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

Appellant, James Edward Rose, Jr. [“Rose”], appeals the Honorable James Knoll Gardner’s order which denied Rose’s petition to open a judgment non pros entered against him. Judgment was entered after Rose failed to attend a pre-trial conference. He now claims that judgment should be opened because he did not receive actual notice of the conference. We disagree and affirm.

This is not the first petition to open a non pros judgment that the trial court entertained. In March of 1990, Rose filed a praecipe for writ of summons against the above-captioned defendants/appellees.…