Williams v. Holley

HALL, Justice.

The defendants in the trial court, G.E. Williams and H.J. Sallee, appeal by writ of error a post-answer default judgment rendered on pleadings set forth for the first time in the plaintiff’s first amended original petition filed after defendants had answered the original petition. For reversal, the defendants contend the judgment record does not show notice to them of the amended petition in accordance with the provisions of Rule 72, Vernon’s Tex.Rules Civ.Proc., 1 nor notice to them of the trial setting required by Rule 245. We affirm the judgment.

Rule 72 provides in pertinent…