State ex rel. Spratlin v. Thompson

At the March term, 1906, the case of Katie Spratlin against the United States Casualty Company in the cir*574cuit court of Shelby county, a judgment by default was rendered against the defendant in that case for $5,172. The judgment recites that the plaintiff “moved the court for a judgment against the defendant for the amount of the debt and interest sued on in said declaration, and evidenced by the policy sued upon; the defendant having been properly served with process herein, and having failed to file any pleas to said declaration.” The entry does not show that the defendant was called out;…