GELZER v. SCAMONI

[No. 178, September Term, 1964.]

238 Md. 73 (1965)

207 A.2d 655

GELZER v. SCAMONI

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 10, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Charles P. Howard, Jr. for appellant.

No brief and no appearance for appellee.

The cause was submitted on the brief to PRESCOTT, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.


PRESCOTT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

When the trial court refused to strike out a confessed judgment that had been obtained against him, appellant noted this appeal.

In his application to open the judgment, he named three allegedly meritorious defenses. Maryland Rule 645. Appellant was weak and vacillating as a witness, and failed, utterly, to show a "meritorious" defense in either of his two claimed ones upon which he was allowed to give testimony...

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