Huppert v. Huppert

73 A. 333, 224 Pa. 374, 1909 Pa. LEXIS 797

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: April 12, 1909
• Docket: Appeal, No. 363
• Status: Published

Opinion

Per Curiam,

On June 12, 1899, the appellant executed and delivered to his wife a judgment note for $1,294.66, which, on the following day, was entered in the court of common pleas of Schuylkill county. In 1908, after a sci. fa. had been issued to revive it, he presented his petition to the court below, asking that it be opened, on the ground that it had been fraudulently obtained from him and had been executed and delivered to his wife without any consideration. To this an answer was filed by the appellee, now the divorced wife of the appellant, denying the allegation of the fraudulent procurement of the judgment and averring that it had been given to secure to her moneys which she had received from the estates of her father and grandfather and advanced to her husband or in his behalf. In support of his petition to open the judgment the appellant was examined as a witness. His testimony was not corroborated by that of the only other witness called in support of the rule. The case as presented to the court below was practically appellant’s oath against the oath of his former wife and the written instrument under seal, and the rule to open was properly discharged: Cloud v. Markle, 186 Pa. 614; Cruzan v. Hutchison, 210 Pa. 88. Appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.