Collins v. Gauche

Gauche brought an action in the Pulaski Circuit Court against Collins and Fenno, as members of the firm of John Collins & Co., in which judgment by default was rendered, and to reverse this judgment, the defendants sued out a writ of error. The grounds upon which the judgment is attacked and supported by the respective parties, are well set forth in the bill of exceptions :

“ Be it remembered, that on the 20th day of May, 1861 * * “ the third Monday of the said term, the court called the docket, “ as it had previously announced it would do, for the purpose '“of permitting judgments by default…