Crown Financial Corporation v. Winthrop Lawrence Corporation and Lammot Dupont Copeland, Jr., and Diversified General, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant

Plaintiff-appellee Crown Financial Corporation (“Crown”) obtained a default judgment for $297,116.54, which it entered against defendant Winthrop Lawrence Corporation (“Winthrop Lawrence”), in an action brought in the Southern District of New York on a promissory note, on November 25, 1970. Crown registered this judgment with the County Clerk of Madera County, California, as a lien against 100 acres of real property owned by Winthrop Lawrence in that county, on December 28, 1970.

Three and one-half years later, in June 1974, intervenor-appellant Diversified General, Inc. (“Diversified”) bought…