Onwuteaka v. Gill

OPINION

HUTSON-DUNN, Justice.

The appellant, Joseph Onwuteaka, appeals a post-answer default judgment rendered against him in .favor of the appellee, Jean Gill, and the trial court’s decision to strike Onwuteaka’s plea in intervention that he filed in a suit between Mrs. Gill and Wayne Brown. We reverse and remand.

I. Summary of Facts

At the trial and the hearing on Onwutea-ka’s post-trial motions to reinstate and motions for new trial, the trial court considered the following evidence about the events in controversy. Mrs. Gill was injured in an automobile accident on February 13, 1991, and she…