MacMillan Petroleum Corp. v. Griffin

The basic questions are whether a certain order granting enforcement of a judgment is void because the then plaintiff was a dissolved Nevada corporation, and whether it could be set aside when the true status of the plaintiff was discovered. There is also involved the question of the validity of an ex parte order substituting party plaintiff. There are a number of orders made culminating in the order appealed from.

Summary

On May 17, 1934, Mileage Gasoline Company (hereafter called Mileage) recovered a judgment against defendants Griffin and Jovick. Approximately 13 years later, in 1947, an…