Hatke v. Globe Indemnity Co.

On February 11, 1936, Louis B. Hatke filed, in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Augusta county, his notice of motion for judgment against the Globe Indemnity Company, a foreign corporation. The notice was returnable on March 2, 1936, and on that day a judgment by default was awarded *185Hatke by the court for $1,057.15, the defendant, Globe Indemnity Company, not appearing.

Notice of the action had been executed upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth as' provided by statute and duly returned to the clerk’s office. On March 9, 1936, that being during the same term of court that the…