Case ID: pa_326/html/0453-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Farmers Trust Company, Appellant, v. Egulf et al., Exrs. Stine, Appellant, v. Alexander et al., Exrs.
    Argued May 10, 1937.
    Before Schaffer, Maxex, Linn, Stern and Barnes, JJ.
    
      
      E. M. Biddle, Jr., with him J. Harvey Line, Caleb 8. Brinton and Frederick J. Templeton, for appellants.
    
      Joseph P. McKeehan, with him Vallie W. Lengyel, for appellees.
    June 25, 1937:
   Per Curiam,

The single question raised in these appeals is whether judgment may he entered by default for want of an affidavit of defense in an action in assumpsit brought against the executors of a decedent upon a contract made by him. The court below determined that such a judgment could not be entered. This determination was made before our recent decision in Myers v. Rabinovitz, 326 Pa. 183, was handed down. We there decided that such a judgment is authorized.

The orders of the court are reversed, with directions to reinstate the judgments entered for plaintiffs against defendants for want of an affidavit of defense unless cause to the contrary be shown.