Smith v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““That at all times during hearing for inter loctuory injunction and the trial of said case the defendant, Arlene Smith, wife of Randell L. Smith, was present in person in the courtroom, while the appearances of both parties were stated to the Court Reporter and the Court at the commencement of the trial, while the opening statements of the plaintiff’s counsel and defendants’ counsel were made (which opening statements outline the positions of the respective parties and state what the respective parties expect to prove), and the case was argued by the attorneys on both sides, after introduction of evidence. “That the said Arlene Smith knew that she was being sued in that case and was one of the defendants therein, because that fact was mentioned numerous times during the trial, in her presence and hearing; that the said Arlene Smith never at any time, either before the said trial or during the ,said trial, or at any time after the said trial, raised any question about her having been properly brought before the court or about not having been duly served with summons or about not having authorized any attorney to represent her in the trial or about not having authorized her husband to employ an attorney to represent her in said trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bates v. Smith