Legal Opinion

Woods v. Woods

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided July 15, 1870PublishedCited by 4 opinions

This is an appeal from an order opening and setting aside a judgment entered in the district court for Hennepin county, upon default, and granting defendants leave to answer. The order appealed from was necessarily made by the judge of an adjoining district. The points presented by the appeal are folly stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court

Berry, J.

This is an appeal from an order opening the judgment entered in this case, and allowing the defendants to answer after the time limited by the statute. The application was by the terms of Section 105, Oh 66, Gen. Stat., addressed to the discretion of the court below, and unless palpable abuse of such discretion is made to appear, its exercise will not be disturbed. We discover no such abuse in this instance. The time for answering ex! pired Feb. 27th, judgment was entered March 21st, and the application for the order appealed from, which was in this case necessarily…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. McDonald v. CampbellSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
  2. Naderhoff v. Geo. Benz & SonsNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1913
  3. Behrens v. KruseSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
  4. Wass v. AtwaterSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885

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