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BROWN v. McCLURE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE

183 Pa.Super. 316 (1957)

Brown v. McClure Newspaper Syndicate, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 9, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin D. Cohn, with him Theodore R. Laputka, and Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, for appellant.

Daniel J. Flood and Frank McGuigan, with them James Lenahan Brown and Flood & Brown, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.

OPINION PER CURIAM, April 9, 1957:

This is an appeal by defendant, McClure Newspaper Syndicate, from the refusal of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County to open a judgment confessed on a sealed promissory note. A petition to open a judgment, being equitable in nature, is addressed to the sound discretion of the court of common pleas, and the disposition by that court will not be disturbed unless a clear abuse of discretion is shown. Stein v. Greene,...

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