Snow Hill Livestock Co. v. Atkinson

This is an appeal from a refusal to set aside and vacate an alleged irregular judgment. Suit was instituted on 24 March, 1921, to recover on several promissory notes, aggregating $700.00, due the plaintiff by defendants, and to foreclose a chattel mortgage given as security therefor, the mortgaged property being taken under an ancillary writ of claim and delivery at the time of the issuance of summons. No pleadings were ever filed in the case, either complaint or answer, and the plaintiff, was not present and did not know of the trial of the cause until sometime after the adjournment of the…