Downey State Bank v. Major-Blakeney Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• applying abuse of discretion standard for refusal to set aside judgment for defective service
• plaintiff need not exhaust all possibilities where there is an effort to serve defendant at the only address reasonably known
• “[O]ne who seeks to vacate a default judgment must proffer some defense of at least sufficient ostensible merit as would justify a trial of the issue thus raised.”
• “The requirement is that there be exercised reasonable diligence in good faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).