Keiper v. Keiper

I join in the majority’s affirmance of the order by the court below denying the petition to open judgment. I dissent from that part of the majority opinion reversing the order striking the judgment. The majority finds that the entry of judgment prior to default was merely voidable, and not void and that the court below erred in striking the judgment. The majority relies on several early cases decided in the period from 1908 to 1926. The court dismisses the decision in Sterling Electric and Furniture Co. v. Irey, 189 Pa.Super. 450, 150 A.2d 363 (1959) by observing that the Sterling court…