Green v. McAdams

OPINION

OLIVER-PARROTT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a default judgment. In four points of error, appellants contend that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to consider evidence concerning appellants’ meritorious defense and in overruling appellants’ motion for a new trial, and erred in rendering default judgment because the pleadings and evidence do not support the default judgment. We reverse and remand.

Appellees, Curtis Wayne McAdams, his wife, his brother, his brother’s wife, and his mother, filed a trespass to try title suit against appellants, Willie Booth Green,…