Richard M. Ross v. National Center for the Employment of the Disabled, as Successor in Interest to Access Healthsource, Inc., Assignee of O.R. Brooker

In one of several - suits between these parties, a trial court entered a $10 million default judgment against a party who was never served. When the trial court denied a bill of review to set aside that default, the court of appeals affirmed, pointing to evidence that the unserved party failed to file a motion for a new trial in the original default, and resisted postjudgment enforcement of it. 176 S.W.3d 642, 646-49. But the trial court had no jurisdiction either to enter judgment or to enforce it against a party who had neither been properly served nor appeared. Accordingly, we reverse.

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