Collins v. Searight-Downs Manfg. Co.

The questions involved on this appeal are whether the trial court was warranted in entering the decree made, and whether he should have granted defendants’ motion to set the same aside.

There seems to be but little, if any, dispute about the facts. They are thus stated by the trial judge: When the cause was called for hearing in open court at 9 o’clock in the forenoon of November 26, 1923, the court inquired if an effort at settlement had been made. He was informed that it had not, but that the attorneys would be glad to confer with that end in view. The court was advised from time to time…