Spears v. Brown

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Appellant, D. J. Spears, perfected this writ of error to secure review of a default judgment rendered against him in favor of Appellee, Lonnie E. Brown. His principal contention here is that the district court erred in refusing to grant him a new trial on the ground that his failure to answer was due to accident or mistake.

The action was instituted by Brown against Ray Bostick. The petition alleged that Brown and Bostick were partners in a club known as The Thirsty Twenties Club and that Bostick had wrongfully excluded Brown from the partnership and had refused to…