Helen Varnes v. Local 91, Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada

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• concluding that service of the amended complaint was required even though the appellant was in default for failure to appear
• holding that improper service of an amended complaint required that the default judgment rendered thereon be vacated under Rule 5(a)(2
• holding that a default judgment entered without proper service is void
• stating that an amended complaint supersedes and replaces the original complaint unless the amended complaint specifically refers to or adopts the earlier pleading
• finding that “[t]here is a genuine dispute of fact as to whether Underwriters or an entity named ‘Hiscox, Inc.’ issued the Policy”
• noting that “as a matter of basic fairness, [the defendant] ought to know that it may be liable for [attorneys fees]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).