McDaniel v. McLendon
McDaniel v. McLendon
Opinion of the Court
The facts of this case will be found in the official report. Under those facts, the trial judge did not err in refusing to set aside the judgment of foreclosure. While the docket was not called regularly, the record shows that counsel for the plaintiff in error consented to the manner in which it was called. It also shows that there had been plenty of time before the call of this case for the defendant to have filed her plea. She states that her counsel were in court and had her plea in their possession, waiting for the ease to be called. Why did they not file it ? Why did they wait until the case was called before filing it? How easy it would have been for them to have filed the plea, or marked their names on the docket, and thus saved all this expense and trouble. If counsel are employed to make defence to a case in court, it is their duty to file their defence, or at least to mark their names on the docket. Instead of doing this, if they wait until the case is
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- McDaniel v. McLendon, guardian
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