State ex rel. Thatcher v. Justice Court of Reno Township

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in a proceeding in certiorari and from an order denying a new trial therein.

The .undisputed facts are that Augustus Tilden obtained a judgment by default against relators in the *138justice court of Reno township for their failure to appear, answer, or demur. Seventeen days after the rendition and entry of the judgment, the relators moved in said justice court to have the judgment set aside and vacated, upon the ground of inadvertence and excusable neglect. The justice denied the motion, and thereafter they sued out a writ of certiorari to review the…