Fisher v. Crest Corp.

When asked to grant relief from a default judgment, a court must weigh the goals of judicial efficiency and substantive justice. Regrettably, in the present case, our judicial system has achieved neither efficiency nor justice.

This is a straightforward debt collection suit against a corporation and two individual defendants. It has been on appeal since August, 1984, when a magistrate refused to grant relief from a default judgment against the corporation. Since that time the plaintiff has clung tenaciously to the judgment, obtaining no adjudication of her claim against the individuals. For…