Russell v. Northeast Bank

EVANS, Justice.

Northeast Bank was awarded a default judgment against James L. Russell in the amount of $26,875.00 and attorney’s fees in the amount of $4,031.25 in a suit brought by Northeast Bank against Russell on a promissory note. Russell asserts the'trial court erred in overruling his timely filed motion to set aside the default judgment and for a new trial, contending that the evidence established that his failure to answer before judgment was not intentional or the result of conscious indifference but was due to mistake or accident; that he had set up a meritorious defense and that a…