Lester v. Dyer

TURNAGE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant from the refusal of the trial court to set aside a default judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff.

The plaintiff is the eighty-nine year old grandmother of the defendant. Plaintiff’s petition was in three counts. The first count sought to have a deed executed by the plaintiff and her late husband to the defendant set aside; the second count alleged the conversion by the defendant of certain livestock and grain for which the plaintiff prayed actual damages in the sum of $918.00 and punitive damages in the sum of $50,000.00; the third count…