WAINWRIGHT v. GALENO


1998 Mass. App. Div. 89 (1998)

Stephen Reed Wainwright v. Cosmo Galeno and another

Massachusetts Appellate Division, Southern District.

May 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Berman for the plaintiff.

Robert L. Perry for the defendants.

Present: Aguiar, P.J., and Crimmins, J.


Crimmins, J.

In this appeal plaintiff challenges the authority of the motion judge to allow a motion to set aside a default judgment that was filed more than one year after the entry of the default judgment. We find no error.

Although the allowance of such a motion is interlocutory in character, the Supreme Judicial Court in Chavoor v. Lewis, 383 Mass. 801 (1981), has held that where there is a challenge to...

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