Legal Opinion
W.H.H. Trice & Co. v. Faris
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 24, 2003No. 01-CV-482PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
We granted the application of W.H.H. Trice & Co. (“Trice”) for allowance to appeal the denial of relief from a default judgment entered against it in the Small Claims and Conciliation Branch of the Civil Division of Superior Court on November 3, 2000. Although a small claims matter such as this could and should have been disposed of expeditiously, and although Trice itself bears a share of the blame for the delay, we are compelled to vacate the default judgment because — contrary to what both the Hearing Commissioner and the reviewing Superior Court Judge were led to…
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