McLendon v. Hall

Where at the appearance term of a suit the docket entry of the case was marked “in default,” and where at the trial term the defendant paid the costs and moved that the court open the default, alleging that he had employed an attorney “to defend him in said suit, and gave him the facts with which to make his answer to the plaintiff’s petition therein, and this defendant was ignorant of such plea and' answer not having been filed until the convening of this court for this term,” that the attorney “promised this defendant to file a plea as aforesaid, and gives [as] his reasons for failing to…