Clark v. Clark

GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

In this appeal the husband attacks the court’s refusal to set aside a default judgment entered against him in his wife’s divorce action.

The wife filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. She obtained service of process on her husband on April 23, 1984. On the wife’s motion, the clerk entered a default against the husband on May 15, 1984, because no response to the petition had been filed by that time. The wife took the case to final hearing before Judge Penick on May 18, 1984, without notice to the husband and obtained a final judgment on the same date.

On May…