Unangst v. Goodyear Mfg. Co.

Citations

• 141 Pa. 127
• 21 A. 499
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 1050

Syllabus

<p>1. In an issue involving the validity of a judgment by confession, the declarations of the defendant, in the absence of the plaintiff and before the confession, tending to show that the judgment was fraudulent, are inadmissible, without prior evidence that the plaintiff was a party to the fraud.</p> <p>2. The defendant in the judgment not being a party to the record, in the issue on trial, and being a competent witness for the party to the issue attacking the validity of the judgment, the latter had no right to examine Mm as if on cross-examination and was bound by his testimony Per Mr. Chief Justice Paxson.</p>