Haynes v. Williams

MURDOCK, Justice.

Kristie Haynes petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to set aside its order granting the defendants’ motion to set aside the default judgment entered against them on Haynes’s complaint in an action resulting from a vehicle collision and alleging negligence and wantonness. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

I. Facts and Procedural History

Though not stated directly, it appears from the submissions filed in conjunction with Haynes’s petition that she was involved in a vehicle collision with a truck driven by Jason Williams, who was…