Lyon v. Goff

Citations

• 119 Pa. 208
• 13 A. 69
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 543

Syllabus

<p>1. A judgment confessed in an amicable action of ejectment, by virtue of a power in a lease to be exercised on a default or breach of the covenants on the part of the lessee, is not within the act of April 4, 1877, P. L. 53, providing for appeals in cases of applications for the opening of judgments entered on warrants of attorney: Limbert’s Appeal, 118 Pa. 589, followed.</p> <p>2. The court must assume that, from the use of the words “ warrant of attorney or judgment note,” the provisions of said act were not intended to be applied to any but money judgments.</p>