JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 56, 2 November 1914, Page 4

JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT.

Complaint has reached this office from a person against whom judgment bj default was registered in a case at the Court on Friday last, the ground of the complaint being that as the amount in dispute had been paid, the case should not have been mentioned in the "Post." The facts of the case are that plaintiff's solicitor in Court ask- ' ed for and was granted judgment by default. After judgment had been given, it appears, defendant paid to the plaintiff (and not as properly to plaintiff's- solicitor) a sum less than the amount for which judgment was given ; and even if plaintiff's solicitor had been notified prior to judgment being entered of the payment of this'amount, it is 'doubtful if ho would have asked to have the case struck out, but would have asked for judgment by default for the remaining balance, when pqbliea--1 tion of details of the case would have been permissible. This matter is hero dealt with at some length for the bene, tit of those litigants who seem to desire to do everything at the last moment. Eleventh-hour action is almost invariably inconvenient to all concern, ed : if the present complainant, had. acted a day sooner" he would, no doubt, have no shadow of a grievance now. Bench, bar and press are continually inconvenienced by litigants who are particularly anxious to avoid judgment by default being given against them, but who, at the same timej fail in diligence and timeliness in respect of their part in the proceedings.