Ratigan v. Holloway

Willie, Chief Justice.

The appellee brought this suit to re» cover of the appellant the sum of five hundred and five dollars and eighty-nine cents, balance alleged to be due the former for money paid for the benefit of the appellant, after deducting certain credits to which the petition admitted the appellant was entitled. Judgment by default was rendered for the plaintiff be*469low for the sum of five hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. Subsequently the defendant moved to set aside this judgment, alleging excuses for his failure to appear and plead to the cause, and further, that he…