LAW OFFICES OF MURPHY L. CLARK v. ALTMAN

No. 6501.

680 P.2d 1125 (1984)

The LAW OFFICES OF MURPHY L. CLARK, Appellant, v. David ALTMAN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

March 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna C. Willard, Willoughby & Willard and Michael W. Flanigan, Clark, Walther & Flanigan, Anchorage, for appellant.

Charles G. Evans, Smith & Gruening, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before BURKE, C.J., RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ., and SERDAHELY, Superior Court Judge.


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

Murphy Clark obtained a default judgment against a former client, David Altman, for legal services. The judgment totalled $5,799.70 and was entered on November 29, 1979. Altman's subsequent motion to have the judgment set aside, accompanied by a bond of $5,849.23 for payment of any judgment which might eventually be rendered, was initially granted by Judge Karl Johnstone, to whom the case was assigned. Clark, however, successfully...

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