Cubano v. Jiménez

In this case the judgment rendered exonerated defendant Rosendo Alejandro from liability and adjudged that the other defendant, Jesús Jiménez .Valcárcel, should pay to the plaintiff the sum of $500 as an indemnity for the damages suffered by the plaintiff’s motor bus in consequence of an accidental collision of the motor busses of the defendants. In the Complaint, however, the' combined negligence of the defendants was alleged.

The case was tried without the attendance of defendant Jesús Jimenez Valcárcel, who thereafter filed a motion alleging that notice of the setting of the case for trial…