McCarthur v. State

How courts have described this case

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• “Since the policy of the law is to have every litigated case tried on its merits, judgments by default are not favored, and, as such a judgment deprives a defendant of substantial rights, it is lawful only when duly authorized.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).