Stilley v. Stilley

This action was instituted against the defendant to compel him to render to his daughter, the plaintiff, and to file in court an account of tutorship, and on his failure to do so, to pay her the sum of three thousand dollars, with interest, etc., that being the amount inherited by her from her mother, and in the hands of her tutor.

An order was issued by the clerk of the District Court to the defendant, *54requiring him to file an account of tutorship as prayed for; but no account was ever filed.

A judgment by default having been entered against the defendant, his counsel moved to set it aside,…