Mayhew v. McDougall

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the appellate court can affirm the entry of default and set aside the default judgment
• holding that a defaulted defendant has the right to contest the issue of damages
• holding that a defaulted defendant has the right to contest the issue of damages
• recognizing court can \refuse to set aside a default and yet set aside the default judgment\
• appellate court may uphold entry of default but set aside default judgment and permit defendant “to contest the issue of damages only”
• “[S]imply giving the plaintiff what he asks for may not attain that level of judicial discretion which will ■ pass appellate muster.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).