MUT. SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOC. v. McKenzie

How courts have described this case

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• holding a complaint omitting essential elements of defendant’s intent and plaintiff’s ignorance inadequate
• placing the burden on the moving party to establish all nine elements of fraud
• “A party seeking a default judgment is entitled to only such relief as is framed by his pleading . . . It follows that if a complaint fails to state a cause of action, the rendering of a default judgment thereon is without authority of law and therefore reversible error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).