Where the record shows filing of an answer and thereafter a default judgment for plaintiff without the requisite notice of trial assignment to defendant the judgment is to be set aside. Code Ann. 81A-140 (c); Siefferman v. Kirkpatrick, 121 Ga. App. 161 (173 SE2d 262).

For decision here is an appeal from denial of a motion by defendant who had filed an answer including a defense based on the Statute of Frauds to set aside a judgment obtained by default which appellant's petition avers was procured without any notice of assignment for trial.

We reverse because the record fails to show compliance with Code Ann. 81A-140 (c) (Ga. L. 1966, pp. 609, 653; 1967, pp. 226, 245). The pertinent portion reads: "The courts shall provide for the placing of action upon the trial calendars (1) without request of the parties but upon notice to the parties . . ." (Emphasis supplied). The emphasis we supplied in the foregoing quotation is on words which the drafters of the Georgia Civil Practice Act added in undertaking to adapt Rule 40 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. As was said by E. Freeman Leverett in his explanatory article in 3 Georgia State Bar Journal 295 at page 305: "Literally construed this section changes the existing law which is to the effect that parties are 'bound to take notice of the time and place of trial and of when their presence is required.' Blanch v. King, 202 Ga. 779, 783; Williams v. Linn, 108 Ga. App. 629, 633 (3)."

We recognize that each court 1 has its own rules dealing with assignment of cases for trial and notice thereof but the case sub judice is similar to Siefferman v. Kirkpatrick, 121 Ga. App. 161, 163, supra, in that "The petition here alleges no notice of trial or the placing of the case on the regular trial calendar." Having made this allegation, defendant is entitled to his day in court on the main case if in fact he proves this essential requirement of assignment notice to have been overlooked or absent. Contra of course if the plaintiff is able to show that the statutory requisite of notice was satisfied.

It should also be noted in the case at bar that the judgment which appellant seeks to set aside states in haec verba: "and no defense having been interposed as provided by law," when in fact there is an answer including the affirmative defense of a plea of the Statute of Frauds.

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

On motion for rehearing appellee has submitted a photo copy of an issue of the DeKalb New Era which is the official organ of DeKalb County, Georgia. This photo copy listed the assignment of this specific case. Since this court cannot take judicial cognizance of a local court rule or of a fact which is not in the record on appeal we have no choice excepting to adhere to our previous opinion.