HAIRSTON v. GENNET

No. 83-1349.

501 A.2d 1265 (1985)

Deborah A. HAIRSTON, Appellant, v. Geraldine R. GENNET, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiley A. Branton, Jr., with whom Peggy A. Barber, Washington, D.C., was on brief, for appellant.

Geraldine R. Gennet, Alexandria, Va., pro se.

Before MACK and TERRY, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Senior Judge.


REILLY, Senior Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate a judgment of $3,662.51 and costs in favor of a lawyer in an action against her former client to recover the unpaid balance of her fee. The challenged judgment was entered after an ex parte hearing on damages conducted by reason of a partial grant of summary judgment some 20 days earlier. In our opinion, the judgment should be vacated and the case remanded to the Superior Court for further...

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