Hutton v. Altland

Citations

• 250 Pa. 113
• 95 A. 390

Syllabus

<p>Judgments — Confessed judgments — Fraud — Opening of judgments — Judicial discretion — Proper exercise.</p> <p>The lower court properly opened a judgment entered upon a note alleged to have been given by a mother to her daughter, where it was alleged that the note was obtained from defendant by fraud, or that it was a forgery, where there was no proof that defendant ever knew of the existence of the note until judgment was entered thereon, where the witnesses who attested the defendant’s signature were not permitted to see the contents of the paper which they were witnessing, and where, subsequent to the date of the note, the plaintiff admitted in the presence of a reputable witness that the defendant owed her nothing.</p>