Court Opinion

ID: 3657266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:10:03.106094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:49:07.036769
License: Public Domain

Motion by defendant Horton to set aside default judgment on the ground of inadvertence and excusable neglect. Upon finding of fact by the court that there was no such excusable neglect on the part of the appellant as could justify setting the judgment aside, the motion was denied, and defendant Horton appealed.
Referring to the matters considered by the court in reaching its conclusion and denying appellant's motion, the court below said: "Upon the argument of the motion to set aside the judgment by default and inquiry, the defendant Lee Horton took the position that any acts or neglect of the Maryland Casualty Company, or the defendant Mrs. Yorke, did not affect his rights under said motion and were not material to be considered by the court in connection therewith. The court ruled, however, that such acts and neglect were material and took such matters in consideration in its finding that there was no excusable neglect, to which defendant Lee Horton duly excepted."
The defendant's exception must be sustained, and the cause remanded for proper findings of fact, eliminating therefrom consideration of acts and negligence of other parties not material to the motion of the appealing defendant.
Error and remanded.