Jones v. Itson

Whitman, Judge.

This case involves a default judgment. The complaint in trover alleged that the defendant, appellant, was in possession of a certain described automobile to which plaintiff claimed title. The complaint was in the Jack Jones form permitted by an Act approved December 27, 1847. Ga. L. 1847, p. 204; Cobb’s Digest 1851, p. 490.

There being no answer filed by the defendant within the time allowed therefor (Code Ann. § 81A-112 (a); Ga. L. 1966, pp. 609, 622, as amended), and there being no opening of such default as the defendant might have done as a matter of right within the time…