Lynch v. Betts

The trial court once denied defendants’ motion for relief from default and thereafter entered default judgment. Later it granted a motion to vacate the earlier order and set aside the default and judgment. Plaintiff appeals from the latter order, and defendants counter with an appeal from the order denying relief from default and from the judgment first entered.

Attorney Berman first entered the case November 2, when he secured an order extending time for defendants to plead to the complaint. On the same day he wrote plaintiff’s attorney, advising of his representation of defendants,…