Lewis v. Van Hooser

On the 12th day of June, 1919, (May term of that year) judgment by default was rendered against defendant for $1000 as and for liquidated damages for failure to perform his part of a contract for the exchange of property. At the same term, the defendant learned of it and, within four days after judgment, filed a motion for new trial supported by affidavits, showing that he had a good defense on the merits and that, without his knowledge, his attorney had, abandoned the case and had taken the papers to another attorney who had refused to act in his stead, and that defendant’s attorney had not…