Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Atlas Auto Finance Co.

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an original petition to this court for mandamus to compel the Hon. W. M. Rayburn, as Judge of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County, to vacate an order setting aside a judgment rendered in a cause wherein the petitioner here, Atlas Auto Finance Company, a partnership, was plaintiff and Hoyt Crump was the defendant. It i's not necessary to consider here the distinction between a judgment by default and a judgment nil dicit. We will hereafter refer to it as a judgment by default.

Mandamus is the appropriate remedy by which this court exercises its supervisory jurisdiction…