Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. v. Price

HOLT, Justice.

Plaintiffs appeal from an order vacating a judgment entered on default and permitting defendant to interpose a proposed answer.

Vacating a default judgment is largely discretionary; but if it appears that the proposed answer states no defense, it is an abuse of judicial discretion to vacate the judgment. We therefore go directly to the merits of the proposed answer. The complaint alleged that plaintiffs’ grantors, as lessors, by written lease, let the second floor of a two-story brick building known as No. 25 South Fifth street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the term of ten years…