State Automobile Mutual Insurance v. Thomson

Carley, Judge.

Appellee-defendant Thomson is a landlord. Among his tenants was appellee-defendant Anderson. Thomson filed a dispossessory warrant against Anderson. Although Anderson filed a timely answer, Thomson’s repeated inquiries as well as his check of court records indicated that no answer had been filed. A writ of possession was obtained by Thomson and Anderson was evicted from the premises. When Thomson later learned that Anderson’s timely filed answer had been misfiled by the clerk’s office, Thomson moved Anderson’s property back into the premises. Subsequently, Anderson filed a…