Greenbaum v. Higgins

Greenbaum, the prosecutor of this writ, obtained a judgment in the Passaic District Court, in his suit against Zeno Higgins and Patrick L. Lynch, in the absence of the defendants.

Thereafter the judge of the District Court allowed the defendants a rule to show cause why such judgment should not be opened. After hearing, the judge opened the judgment.

The legal propriety of that order is now challenged.

We think it should not be disturbed.

It appears from an examination of the order and of the finding of facts made by the trial judge that the trial judge found from the evidence that when the case…