Konan v. Carroll

This is an appeal from an order denying the defendants’ motion to vacate default judgment, supersede execution, and quash service of process. Essentially, this case concerns the sufficiency of notice to the defendants of a suit arising out of an automobile accident that occured in 1982. The procedural background is a long and torturous one in which the action dies and, like Banquo’s ghost, is repeatedly resurrected. But the case reduces itself simply to those two basic perennial questions: What did the defendants know, and when did they know it?

The plaintiffs, Michael Konan and Maureen…