Cronauer v. Bayer

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Adolph Bayer, appellant herein and one of the defendants in a judgment entered against him and Adam Bayer by Nicholas Cronauer, has appealed from an order of the court below discharging his rule to show cause why the judgment should not be opened as to appellant.

The ground assigned for opening was that appellant’s purported signature to the note upon which the judgment was confessed is a forgery, and that appellant had no knowledge of the existence of the note or judgment until a scire facias issued to revive the latter was served upon him. The rule was discharged…