Design Build of Maine v. Paul

ROBERTS, Justice.

Plaintiffs Design Build of Maine, Marriott Corp., and William S. Best (Design Build) appeal from a default judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Brennan, J.) in favor of defendants David and Linda Paul. On appeal Design Build makes two arguments that a default judgment should not have been entered against them: 1) that they were never served with the Pauls’ amended answer and counterclaim; and 2) that, even if properly served with the amended pleadings, default was improper because the issues in dispute had been sufficiently defined by the prior pleadings…