Betty v. Superior Court

In this proceeding an alternative writ of mandate was granted upon a showing that the superior court had refused to direct its clerk to issue an execution upon a judgment. The question for decision concerns the time within which a judgment, which has been revived under the provisions of section 708 of the Code of Civil Procedure, “has the same force and effect” as the original one.

The judgment in controversy was rendered September 20, 1932, in an action brought by Lorn H. Betty. It provided that the plaintiff should have a lien upon certain property and directed that execution issue…