Carlisle v. Wilkinson

Complaint by the appellees against the appellant, for the assignment of dower in certain real estate. Judgment by default for the plaintiffs below.

At the next term of the Court after the judgment was entered, Carlisle appeared by his attorney, and moved to set aside the judgment. He filed an affidavit, setting out *92matters relied upon as a defense to the plaintiffs’ claim of dower, and stating “that immediately on the service of process on Mm in this case, he went to Lucian Barbour, an attorney at law, of Indianapolis, and of that Court, and employed him to attend to the defense of this case,…