U-Totem Store v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• “A meritorious defense must be established by facts and not through conclusions, assumptions or affidavits based on other than personal knowledge.”
• discovery rules applied to “facilitate identifying the issues, promote justice, . . . avoid surprise, and prevent the trial . . . from becoming a guessing game”
• “The law favors resolving a case on the merits rather than by default.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).