Crawford v. Dammann

How courts have described this case

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• affirming trial court’s award of zero damages, concluding that testimony about the “approximate” 10 amount of fees wrongfully assessed was “insufficient to prove the amount of [damages] to the requisite degree of specificity”
• failure to file an answer constitutes an admission of the well-pled factual allegations of the complaint, although it does not admit conclusions of law
• “[A] default does not preclude a defendant from showing that under the facts deemed admitted, no claim existed which would allow a plaintiff to recover.”
• default judgment improper where “no claim existed which would allow a plaintiff to recover”
• “[i]n its order granting a default judgment, the trial court specifically recited that it considered the arguments and submissions of counsel in finding that cross-appellants had not made a proper case for opening the default. Such a finding cannot be assailed absent a transcript”
• a judgment right for any reason will be affirmed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).