MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a personal injury action in which defendant filed an answer and a jury demand. When the case was regularly reached for trial on May 9, 1967, the assignment judge denied a request of defendant's counsel for a continuance because defendant was out of town and unavailable. The case was then assigned to a magistrate where, on the assumption of both court and counsel that a default order had been entered by...
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