Strother v. Harper

In this cause the suit was returnable to a quarterly term of the city court of Washington. No plea having been filed at the first term, the case was marked in default. At the second term the defendant moved to open the default and to be allowed to plead. This motion was denied, and, after judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant excepted. Counsel for the plaintiff in error, in his brief, states that “The controlling question in this case is whether or not the trial judge, in refusing to allow the default opened at the trial term, abused the discretion vested in him by law for opening…