Wilkins v. Cooper

The plaintiff appeals from two orders of the Superior Court, one denying his motion to vacate final judgment entered without notice to him or his counsel, and one revoking execution for the plaintiff of a previous, favorable final judgment that the judge ordered vacated. Resolution of the appeal requires us to apply long-standing principles of procedural due process to the particular circumstances before us.

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An understanding of the issues presented requires that we first sort out the long, tangled history of this litigation. This case arose from a dispute between two former business partners,…