Finlay v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the trial court’s finding or conclusion as to the nature of the error is not binding on the appellate court
• judicial error may not be corrected by judgment nunc pro tunc after trial court's plenary jurisdiction expires
• before a trial court may properly render a default judgment, the record must reflect the trial court has jurisdiction over the subject matter and the parties and the case is ripe for judgment
• “The two basic judicial decisions a trial judge must make before rendering and entering a default judgment are (1) that the court has jurisdiction of the subject matter and the parties to the suit, and (2) that, on the record, the case is ripe for the –8– judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).