Cromer v. Sgitcovich

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

The judgment of the court below was. rendered upon an ex parte trial in the absence of appellant and her counsel in the District Court for the Tenth Judicial District on June 4, 19011 against the appellant in a suit for debt and foreclosure of a lien on land.. On June 26, 1901, the appellant filed a motion for a new trial which was substituted and amended by a motion filed July 1, 1901. The grounds for the motion were the unavoidable absence of her attorney and a meritorious defense.

It appears from the affidavit of -the attorney that he was absent from the county of…