Rainier Holdings, Inc. v. Tatum

How courts have described this case

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• answer filed for corporation by nonattorney is defect curable by amended answer filed by attorney relating back to date of original answer
• “parol evidence is admissible when determining whether a novation has occurred”
• when defect in a corporate defendant's answer was cured by the filing of a second answer by a licensed attorney, the second answer related back such that the trial court erred in entering a default judgment against that defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).