Williams v. Wade

TAMILIA, Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition to strike a judgment in mortgage foreclosure entered pursuant to Rule 237.1 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure due to appellants’ default for failure to plead.1

The record reveals notice of intention to enter default judgment was mailed to appellants on May 6, 1996 and the prothonotary entered the judgment on May 16, 1996. Ap-pellee’s praecipe for writ of execution was filed in the Court of Common Pleas minutes before appellants filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy on May 20, 1996. Six months later, Bankruptcy Judge Judith K.…