Legal Opinion
Household Finance Corp. v. Frye
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided May 24, 1982No. 81-253PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YEAGLEY, Associate Judge, Retired:
This appeal is from an order granting appellee’s motion to vacate a default judg ment entered over four years earlier. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court properly granted appellee’s motion pursuant to Super.Ct.Civ.R. 60(b)(6) or whether appellee’s claims were cognizable only under Rule 60(b)(1), in which case the trial court lacked jurisdiction to vacate the default judgment because of the one-year time limit applicable to that subpart of the rule. Finding, as we do, that appellee’s claim described the type of “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or…
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