Curtiss v. Bell
Decision Date | 25 May 1908 |
Citation | 131 Mo. App. 245,111 S.W. 131 |
Parties | CURTISS v. BELL. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; A. F. Evans, Special Judge.
Action by George W. Curtiss against W. L. Bell. Judgment for plaintiff, by default, and, from an order setting the same aside, plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
Metcalf, Brady & Sherman, for appellant. Flournoy & Flournoy, for respondent.
This is an appeal from the action of the court setting aside a judgment by default. On the 26th day of December, 1906, the plaintiff instituted the action for a dissolution of the partnership and for an accounting. Summons was duly served upon the defendant returnable to the January term of the circuit court of Jackson county, to be held at Kansas City. The case was regularly docketed, and on the 4th day of April, 1907, at which time a sitting of all court cases was made whether contested or uncontested. At that time plaintiff answered that he was ready for trial, and the court placed the case on the list of trial cases to be tried in its regular order. It was reached in its order Saturday, April the 6th, and, the defendant not appearing, the court heard the evidence introduced by the plaintiff, and entered judgment accordingly in his favor. On April the 12th, during the next regular term of the court, the defendant filed his motion to set aside the judgment, which the court sustained.
The said motion, omitting the caption, is as follows: . ...
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