APPLETON ELEC. CO. v. GRAVES TRUCK LINE, INC.

No. 79-1640.

635 F.2d 603 (1980)

APPLETON ELECTRIC COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GRAVES TRUCK LINE, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 25, 1980.

As Corrected December 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha A. Mills, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Jay A. Canel, Rudnick & Wolfe, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL, Circuit Judge, PECK, Senior Circuit Judge, and TONE, Circuit Judge.


JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal considers whether 282 default judgments taken against appellant in a class action suit are void due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction or because the damages awarded exceeded the amount prayed for in plaintiff's demand for relief. And, if the first two issues are answered in the negative, whether the trial court abused its discretion in not setting aside a number of the default judgments that appellant contends come...

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