PARK-MAIN CO. v. FAYETTE NAT. BK. & TR. CO.


397 Pa. 75 (1959)

Park-Main Co. of Penn., Inc., Appellant, v. Fayette National Bank and Trust Company of Uniontown.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiley A. Bucey, Jr., with him Sherman T. Rock, G. Taylor Hess, and Paul, Lawrence & Rock, for appellant.

David McNeil Olds, with him Elder W. Marshall, Thomas A. Waggoner, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and McBRIDE, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE McBRIDE, July 2, 1959:

This is an appeal by landlord from an Order of the Common Pleas Court of Fayette County striking off a judgment for $772,916.55 entered against the tenant. The judgment was purportedly entered under a power to confess judgment contained in a long term lease.

On October 31, 1952, Fayette Title and Trust Building, a Pennsylvania corporation, leased to Fayette National Bank...

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