Stout-Jennings-Schmidt Co. v. Schmidt

STEPHENS, Justice.

The plaintiff appeals from an order of the trial court rendered September 12,1980, setting aside and holding void its default judgment entered July 18, 1980; contending that the default judgment of July 18 was a final judgment over which the trial court had lost its jurisdiction, and thus the trial court had no jurisdiction to enter its order of September 12. We hold that the default judgment of July 18 was interlocutory, and thus the court had power to set it aside by the order of September 12. We also hold that whether or not the order of July 18 was final, the order of…