Bernos v. Michel

The defendants appeal from a judgment rendered against them in solido on four past-due promissory notes. Their complaint is that the court below erred in overruling a motion for a new trial.

The case was regularly fixed for trial in the court below for March 19, 1928. Neither the defendants nor their counsel appeared, nor was any request for a continuance made in their behalf. The case was ordered tried, and, upon the showing made by plaintiff, judgment was rendered as prayed for.

In their motion for a new trial defendants allege that'on the day the case was called for trial their attorneys…