Legal Opinion
City of Glendale v. George
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 27, 1989No. B032383PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WOODS (A. M.), P. J.
This appeal is from an order denying the motion of Robert and Stella George (appellants) to vacate a consent judgment into which they had entered with the City of Glendale (the City).
We must first consider the procedural validity of this appeal. Ordinarily, a consent judgment cannot be attacked. (Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Hildebrand (1965) 238 Cal.App.2d 859, 861 [48 Cal.Rptr. 339].) An exception exists, however, when the judgment is allegedly void on constitutional grounds, on the theory that such a judgment exceeds the court’s jurisdiction and is subject to…
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