Warren v. Dixon Ranch Co.

McDonough, justice.

Appellants seek to have the lower court’s refusal to vacate a default judgment taken against them by the respondent reversed on the grounds of excusable neglect.

The suit was one to quiet title. On May 26, 1951, appellant Arnold Dixon was served with process individually and as a director and trustee of the Dixon Ranch Company, a Utah corporation whose charter was suspended in 1934. He failed to answer or to notify the stockholders of the pending suit, and default was entered against him and the company on July 11th. Appellant Paul Dixon, one of about 20 stockholders, first…