This decision affirms a default judgment despite the plaintiff’s plea on appeal that the trial court had erred in not awarding more damages, attorney fees, and discovery sanctions. Trial courts must serve as gatekeepers when default judgments are sought, assuring that the plaintiff proves with evidence the claimed damages. Here, the fight was over a $47,000 bill for inadequate plumbing work, but plaintiff sought over $1 million in damages, over $300,000 in attorney fees and more than $100,000 in discovery sanctions. The trial court correctly refused to admit as evidence of fraud unanswered requests for admission that had been served after the defendants announced they would no longer appear in the case. The trial court also properly held that the plaintiff had over-lawyered the case after the defendants defaulted and that discovery sanctions would serve only as punishment, not encourage compliance, when assessed for not answering discovery served after the defendants no longer appeared in the case.