Miller v. Mastrocola

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

This is an appeal by defendants from an order of the court below dismissing their petition and discharging their rule to open a judgment entered against them on a judgment note accompanying a bailment lease. Such proceedings to open a judgment are a substitute for a bill in equity (Rome Sales & Service Station v. Finch, 120 Pa. Superior Ct. 402, 405, 183 A. 54); a petition to open a judgment entered upon a warrant of attorney is an equitable proceeding governed by equitable principles, and addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court (Horn v. Witherspoon, 327 Pa.…