43 Mo. 168 | Mo. | 1869
delivered the opinion of the court.
The question involved here is one of practice. An interlocutory judgment by default was rendered against the defendant, who, the succeeding day, moved the court to set it aside, and for leave to file an answer. The motion W"as accompanied with an affidavit and various exhibits. It was overruled by the court, and final judgment entered for the plaintiff. This judgment was reversed by the District Court, and the plaintiff brings the case here by writ of error. From the affidavit and papers in the case, among which is the defendant’s answer, it appears that the suit was by attachment to the Cooper County Circuit Court, February term, 1867, the defendant being a non-resident, and notice being given by publication,. No actual notice of the pendency of the suit appears to have reached him till July, 1867. The defendant was absent in Europe from about the last of the preceding December till that time. Before leaving for Europe, in December, in antici
The judgment of the District Court reversing the judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.