Case ID: cole-cai-cas_1/html/0323-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stephen Ross and others v. Nehemiah Hubble and Jemima his Wife, administratrix of Ichabod Paterson.
    
    THIS was a motion to set aside the default entered in the cause, and all subsequent proceedings with costs.
    The affidavits contained a variety of unimportant facts, but the only question, worth noticing, which was relied on, was one of practice, whether it was regular to a writ, which was in trespass only, and returned with the names of the defendants indorsed, to enter their appearance in the clerk’s office, after judgment was signed.
    It was contended that, as the court would order it to be done on application, it was, in fact, doing no more than that, which the court would sanction.
   Per Curiam.

It is said that no appearance of the defendants, by special or common bail, or an entry of appearance was of record, when the default and judgment were returned. As the process in the cause did not require bail, the defendants indorsed their appearance on the copias. It was the business of the clerk, and not of the attorney, to have entered their appearance. This may be done nunc pro tune. The loches of the clerk ought never to prejudice the attorney. We, therefore, deny the motion with costs of opposing.