Minyard v. Southern Pipe & Supply Co., Inc.

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Southern Pipe & Supply Company, Inc. sued Truman L. Minyard on a sworn account. Minyard failed to answer, and a default judgment was rendered for the amount of the debt, together with attorney’s fees. Minyard has perfected this writ of error. We affirm the judgment on the debt, but reverse and remand the award of attorney’s fees because of Minyard’s inability to obtain a statement of facts of the default judgment hearing.

Minyard’s first argument is that the affidavit supporting the account was fatally defective because it failed to identify, in its introduction, the signer…