Haskins v. Spiller

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

a re-This case was heretofore before this Court, and port of it will he found in 1 Dana, 170.

Upon the return of the cause to the Circuit Court, after an interlocutory decree was rendered, William B. Cook, a non-resident defendant, who had been proceeded *574against by publication, appeared and exhibited his answer, and moved the Court to set aside the interlocutory decree, and permit him to file the same. The Court overruled his motion, and refused leave to file his answer.

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