Crews v. Deere & Co. (Majority, with Dissenting)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed a complaint against Defendant in 1998, alleging that Defendant had breached a retail installment contract. After twelve months of no action of record, the circuit court dismissed the case without prejudice. Two months later, the parties appeared before the court to enter a consent judgment. A consent judgment was filed ordering that Plaintiff would recover $12,000 payable before August 18, 2002. The matter remained dormant for ten years until Plaintiff moved to revive the consent judgment. In response, Defendant filed several pleadings of its own. The circuit court denied Defendant's motions and allowed execution on the judgment. At issue before the Supreme Court was whether the circuit court had jurisdiction to enter a consent judgment in a case that had been dismissed. The Court reversed and dismissed, holding that the circuit court lost jurisdiction when it dismissed the case, and therefore, the court did not have jurisdiction to enter the consent judgment, making the consent judgment invalid.
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