Thorp Loan and Thrift Co. v. Morse

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a defendant in default [for failure to appear] may argue for the first time on appeal that the plaintiff’s complaint did not state a cause of action or that the relief granted was not justified by the complaint”
• discussing issues that may be raised in direct appeal
• “When an appellant acts as attorney pro se, appellate courts are disposed to disregard defects in the brief, but that does not relieve appellants of the necessity of providing an adequate record and preserving it in a way that will permit review.”
• excess relief is “extrajudicial and void”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).