Sher v. Burche

SACKETT, Judge.

Defendant landlord, John Burche, appeals from the district court’s default judgment granting damages to the plaintiff tenants, Mike and Corrine Sher, for Burche’s failure to provide garbage receptacles on the plaintiffs’ premises. Burche claims that the district court erred in entering a default against him based on his absence from the trial, that the district court erred in denying Burche’s untimely request for a jury trial, and that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s findings concerning liability and damages.

The plaintiffs are tenants of an…