Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Number Nine Coal Corp.

Judge Knight

Affirming.

Appellee No. 9 Coal Corporation filed its petition in the Muhlenberg Circuit Court against the Southern Engineering Corporation, a foreign corporation and a non-resident of Kentucky, alleging the latter company was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $4000 represented by four notes of $1000 each, all of which were past due. The petition contained sufficient allegations to justify a general order of attachment against the nonresident defendant' and since no defense was made to the suit, default judgment was entered on January 7, 1946, against the defendant for the…