National City Mortgage, Inc. v. Point Center Financial, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing the trial court’s denial of defendants’ motion to set aside a default judgment when the court never affirmatively ordered them to file an answer to an amended complaint, and they were never in default for failing to do so
• reversing the trial court’s denial of defendants’ motion to set aside a default judgment entered after they failed to answer amended complaint; 6 the trial court never affirmatively ordered them to file an answer to an amended complaint, and they were never in default for failing to do so
• “In this State it is well settled that an amended complaint adding a new party defendant does not require a responsive pleading, unless the trial court orders a reply thereto.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).