Watson v. Falwell

This is a petition to establish the defendant's draft report which was disallowed by the trial justice as contrary to the facts of the case.

The docket indicates that the defendant was defaulted on September 5, 1980. The plaintiff filed a Dist./Mun. Cts. R. Civ. P., Rule 55 motion for assessment of damages on November 7, 1980. A hearing on this motion was then scheduled for December 23, 1980. It is apparently with reference to the events of December 23, 1980 that the recitals of the defendant's draft report were deemed inaccurate by the trial justice.

The formal docket submitted to this…