United States v. Nicholls

How courts have described this case

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• explaining “in the Virgin Islands, real property passes from a decedent to his or her heirs immediately upon the passing of the decedent to his or her heirs, even without an administration of decedent's estate”
• after the entry of default “a trial court accepts the factual allegations of the complaint as true, except for those averring the amount of damages”
• “[W]hen reviewing the allegations of a complaint to determine whether to award a judgment by default, the Court essentially looks at the pleading through a prism similar to that used when ruling on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).