Broward County v. Perdue

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• default judgment vacated and cause remanded because failure to answer complaint resulted when summons and complaint were inadvertently paper-clipped to a file and misplaced
• excusable neglect found upon a showing that responsive pleading was not timely filed because the summons and complaint had been inadvertently clipped to the back of another file and replaced in the file cabinet
• \ingrained preference for trial on the merits\

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