Clark v. Brown

CROW, Judge.

Plaintiffs Travis Clark and Peggy Clark appeal from an' order setting aside a default judgment in their favor against defendant James Brown for $24,000 actual damages and $100,000 punitive damages.

A history of the case to August 7, 1990, appears in Clark v. Brown, 794 S.W.2d 254 (Mo.App.1990), where this Court declared void an order of the trial court denying defendant’s motion to set the judgment aside. That opinion must be read as a preface to this one.

After remand, the trial court 1 heard further evidence, considered the transcript of all earlier evidence, and with commendable…