Legal Opinion
Greenup v. Rodman
California Supreme Court
Decided November 13, 1986No. L.A. 32093PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOSK, J.
As a sanction for wilful and deliberate refusal to obey discovery orders, the trial court in this case struck the answer and entered a default judgment in an amount exceeding the prayer of the complaint. We granted review to consider whether a default judgment entered as a discovery sanction is excepted from the general rule that “if there be no answer” filed, the plaintiff’s relief “cannot exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint. . . .” (Code Civ. Proc., § 580.)1 We conclude that in all default judgments the demand sets a ceiling on recovery.
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