Sutherland v. Spencer

Supreme Court of Texas · Decided 2012-06-29

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Justice GREEN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice JOHNSON, Justice GUZMAN and Justice LEHRMANN joined. In this case, we consider whether the excuse offered by defendants for failing to answer a lawsuit timely is sufficient to satisfy the first element of the Craddock test for setting aside a no-answer defa…

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