Hoffman v. White

This appeal is from an order overruling a motion to vacate a final judgment, rendered in a cause pending in Chaves county, in the Fifth judicial district

The ground of the motion was: “Said judgment was not signed by a judge in the fifth judicial district of the State of New Mexico, but was signed at Clovis, New Mexico, in the ninth judicial district * * * by Hon. Harry L. Patton, Judge of said district”

Appellants were defendants in the cause and had failed to plead. A clerk’s certificate of such failure having been filed, counsel for plaintiff drafted a judgment and procured the clerk to send…