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DUQUESNE LT. CO. v. PITTSBURGH R. CO.

400 Pa. 565 (1960)

Duquesne Light Company, Appellant, v. Pittsburgh Railways Company.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 30, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund K. Trent, with him Henry G. Wasson, Jr., Thomas J. Munsch, Jr., and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for appellant.

Clyde A. Armstrong, with him Charles M. Thorp, Jr., and Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, for appellee.

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

OPINION PER CURIAM, June 30, 1960:

By this appeal we are asked to determine whether the court below was correct when it opened the judgment confessed by appellant against the appellee pursuant to terms of a lease and required the parties to comply with the arbitration provisions therein contained.

A petition to open a judgment is addressed to the sound discretion of the court and, unless an abuse of such discretion...

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