Walker v. State of California

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the action for failure to have summons issued within one year after the filing of the complaint, as required by section 581a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

On July 26, 1951, appellant’s mother commenced this action to recover damages from the state and certain of its officials on the ground that in 1880 the then judge of the Superior Court of Solano County, acting as the agent of the state, fraudulently conspired to, and did, permit her adoption and thereby deprived her of her vested interest in her deceased mother’s estate. Appellant’s mother…