Edwards v. Hellings
California Supreme Court
Appeal from orders of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco refusing to set aside a judgment by default, and denying a motion to recall and quash an execution. ’The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The plaintiff commenced an action against the appellant and another defendant February 16, 1884, for the purpose of recovering from them the amount of a judgment that had been previously rendered in the fifteenth district court for the city and county of San Francisco. The summons in the action was served upon the appellant alone, and was given by him to an attorney, with instructions to defend the action. This attorney filed a demurrer to the complaint, which was afterwards overruled for want of prosecution. Notice of such overruling was served upon the appellant’s attorney, and, no answer…
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