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Emademe v. Weadick

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 22, 1918No. Appeal, No. 216PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal, No. 216, Oct. T., 1917, by plaintiff, from order of Municipal Court, Philadelphia Co., April T., 1917, No. 541, making absolute rule to open judgment in case of Virginia L. Emademe, trading as Madame, Lady In Mask, v. Guy Weadick. Rule to open judgment. Error assigned was order making absolute rule to open judgment. cited: Von Schirach v. Vance, 239 Pa. 300; Harris v. Mercur, 202 Pa. 313; Woods v. Irwin, 141 Pa. 278. cited: Wernert’s App., 91 Pa. 319; Jenkintown Nat.

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1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Henderson, J.,

This case is an appeal from the order of the Municipal Court making absolute a rule to open a judgment taken against the defendant for want of an answer and to permit him to make a defense. The summons were served personally on the defendant April 27, 1917. The judgment was entered May 8, 1917. The application to open the judgment was made by the defendant’s attorney who alleges that he had a conversation with the plaintiff’s attorney on the seventh of May, 1917, in which he asked the latter for an extension of time for filing an answer, to which the plaintiff’s…

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