Mellon Bank v. Rafsky

HESTER, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying Jeffrey K. Raf sky’s petition to open or strike a judgment for $756,392 entered against him by confession. Mellon Bank confessed judgment against Rafsky, president of a corporation indebted to the bank, under a suretyship agreement whereby Rafsky had personally guaranteed the corporation’s debt. We affirm the order, holding that the trial court correctly applied the doctrine of collateral estoppel in refusing to open the judgment and that no defect on the face of the record warranted striking the judgment.

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