Melton v. Baylor

OPINION

By COLLIER, J:

These two cases originated in the Municipal Court of the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in which the plaintiff obtained default judgments. Inasmuch as the same questions of law are involved in each of the cases they are considered together and the parties will be referred to as the plaintiff and the defendants.

The plaintiff, Thess Melton, on the 29th day of May, 1951, obtained a judgment in each case by default and thereafter, in January, 1952, at a subsequent term of court, defendants filed petitions to vacate the said judgments. On October 23, 1952, the trial…