C.C. Miller Corp. v. Ag Asset, Inc.

The seventeen individual defendants in this case appeal an order of the superior court granting plaintiff’s motion for a default judgment against them as a sanction for noncompliance with discovery orders. We reverse and remand.

Defendant Ag Asset, Inc. entered into a dairy cow management contract with the seventeen individual defendants in this case in late 1983. On March 1, 1984, acting pursuant to the contract as their agent and attorney-in-fact, Ag Asset purchased four hundred cows from plaintiff C.C. Miller Corporation, a cattle broker in Morrisville, Vermont. In the course of that…