121 Cal. 99 | Cal. | 1898
Suit for divorce, division of common property, etc. The question on appeal relates to the action of the court below in denying defendant’s motion to set aside a default entered against him and to vacate the judgment subsequently rendered on the ex parte application of plaintiff. Said motion was made in due season, and on the grounds of surprise and excusable neglect and that the default was entered before plaintiff was entitled thereto.
Defendant appeared in the action by attorney and his demurrer to the complaint was overruled- afterward, on June 27, 1896, the attorney for plaintiff, as appears from his affidavit used in opposition to defendant’s said motion, "entered into a verbal
Chipman, C., and Searls, C., concurred.
For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion the judgment and order appealed from are reversed and the cause is remanded, with instructions to the court below to set aside the default and allow an answer properly signed to be filed within a reasonable time. Temple, J., Henshaw, J., McFarland, J.