Bastien v. R. Rowland & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that Supreme Court in Frow “held that entry of judgment against the party in default must await adjudication of liability on the merits with regard to the answering parties”
• affirming without opinion district court order denying motion for default judgment because entry of default would have created an “inconsistent and unsupportable” result
• summary judgment “accrue[d] to the benefit of” defaulting defendant “as well as to those parties who have actively defended against plaintiffs’ claims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).