Robertson v. Blair & Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage, J., Fairfield, November, 1898. Motions in above stated cases to set aside the judgments therein by default. The Circuit order is as follows: This is a motion to vacate a judgment. The judgment was filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, 9th October, 1891, and it was by default.
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Before Gage, J., Fairfield, November, 1898. Motions in above stated cases to set aside the judgments therein by default. The Circuit order is as follows: This is a motion to vacate a judgment. The judgment was filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, 9th October, 1891, and it was by default. The motion is by the defendant, L. M. Blair; and the ground of it is the fact that at the time the judgment was entered, the defendant, L. M. Blair, lacked about four months of attaining his majority, and he was not served according to the provision of the Code regulating actions against infants.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
*1041 *102These three cases, growing out of the same facts, and depending upon the same principles, were heard and will be considered together. A motion was made before his Honor, Judge Gage, at September term, 1898, of the Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield County, to vacate the judgments entered in each of said cases upon the ground that the defendant, L. M. Blair, was a minor at the time said judgments were entered, and that no guardian ad litem was appointed to- represent him in the actions in Which said judgments were obtained.…
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