Hobbs v. Martin Marietta Company

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing district court’s denial of defendant’s motion to set aside default and default judgment
• default set aside where defendants forwarded suit papers to insurer but failed to check whether insurer received them
• default set aside where defendants forwarded suit papers to insuror but failed to check whether insuror received them; insuror did not receive them and failed to enter an appearance
• “We have . . . emphasized that courts prefer a trial on the merits.”
• “[C]ourts prefer a trial on the merits.”
• “[C]ourts prefer a trial on the merits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).