Mulartrick v. Heimbecker

TRESSLER, J.,

— Defendants, Gerard and Susan Heimbecker, appeal from this court’s order dated July 2, 1996, granting plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions in the form of a default judgment. Their appeal raises a single issue: whether this court properly granted plaintiffs a default judgment as a sanction for defendants’ repeated violations of the rules of discovery and court orders regarding discovery.

FACTS

On June 16, 1995, plaintiffs filed their complaint in the above-captioned matter. They served their first set of interrogatories and first request for production of documents upon defendants’…