Sandoval v. Rattikin

I respectfully dissent.

On the hearing of the appellants’ (San-dovals’) motion for new trial below it was conclusively established that they had not been accorded their day in court nor their right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. In my opinion, the lower court should have set aside the judgment under which the Sandovals lost their homestead and granted them the new trial which they sought.

The legal injustice in this case was brought about because the Sandovals, due to their poverty and inability to employ an attorney of…