Hughes v. Wright

This is an appeal from a default judgment and from an order refusing to set the same aside.

The action was commenced by plaintiff against defendant to quiet title to property, cancel a lease, and to recover certain moneys allegedly due from defendant pursuant to the terms of said lease and of an oral agreement allegedly made in connection therewith.

Service of summons and complaint was made upon the defendant April 30, 1943. He employed counsel (not his present attorney), and an oral agreement was entered into between counsel for plaintiff and defendant extending the time within which the…