Legal Opinion
Askew v. Randolph Carney Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 21, 1955No. 1725PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from an order setting aside a default judgment and quashing an attachment. Named as defendants were a corporation and also three trustees, one of them an attorney. In an affidavit in support of the motion the defense attorney, acting for all the defendants including himself, stated that the complaints served upon defendants were misplaced by him in the process of changing secretaries and that the matter was completely overlooked until October 6, 1955, when notice of the default was received. (The judgment was entered September 26.) The affidavit also alleged…
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