Sanborn v. Centralia Furniture Mfg. Co.
Citation | 31 P. 466,5 Wash. 150 |
Court | United States State Supreme Court of Washington |
Decision Date | 01 November 1892 |
Parties | SANBORN ET AL. v. CENTRALIA FURNITURE MANUF'G CO. |
Appeal from superior court, Lewis county; EDWARD F. HUNTER, Judge.
Action by Sanborn, Vail & Co. against the Centralia Furniture Manufacturing Company on an account. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
H Julius Miller, for appellant.
Landrum & Landrum, for respondents.
This appeal is brought to reverse the action of the court below in refusing to vacate and set aside a judgment rendered against appellant by reason of its default in not appearing and answering the complaint of plaintiffs, as required by the terms of the summons duly served upon it. The ground upon which relief was sought against such judgment was the alleged excusable neglect of defendant and its counsel. The allegation of the affidavit filed in support of the motion to vacate the judgment, so far as this question is concerned, was as follows, to wit: And the question presented for us to decide is as to whether or not this showing so clearly established the fact that the defendant was entitled to be relieved against the judgment that the court below, in refusing such relief, abused the discretion vested in it. That questions of this kind are submitted to the sound judicial discretion of the court to which the application is addressed is conceded by appellant, and, this being so, it comes within that class of cases in which the appellate court will not interfere unless the action of the court below is so clearly...
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