St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Freeman

This is a suit to invoke the power of equity to set aside a default judgment procured in an action at law.

August 9, 1922, J. H. Guerin, one of the defendants herein, instituted an action in the district court, in Toole county, against the insurance company which is the plaintiff herein, for the recovery of insurance money, alleged to be due on account of the destruction by fire of an automobile. August 28, 1922, the insurance company appeared by its attorneys, who filed for it a general demurrer. September 7, 1922, the demurrer came on for hearing and was overruled, in the absence of the…