Parkway Fuel Service, Inc. v. Pauley

Flowers, Justice:

In this appeal from the Circuit Court of Putnam County, judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff, Parkway Fuel Service, Inc., and against the defendant, Roy Pauley, for $4,000.00 rent and possession of the rental property. The defendant assigns as error the summary entry of judgment, over his objection and without evidence to support it, when the facts were in dispute and a timely demand for a jury trial had been made.

After being granted this appeal, the defendant failed to file a brief and did not appear when the case was called for argument. The plaintiff exercised…