Porter v. Pico
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Seventeenth District Court, County of Los Angeles.
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Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Seventeenth District Court, County of Los Angeles. Sepulveda, J. The execution in the defendant’s action, referred to in the opinion, was addressed to D. W. Alexander, late Sheriff of Los Angeles County, and after reciting the levy of the attachment, the recovery of the judgment, and an order of the Court for the issue of the execution, commanded the said Alexander to sell all the right, title, and interest, which the judgment debtor had in and to the land in question at the date of the levy. The writ…
1Opinion of the Court
McKee, J.:
The action is brought to enjoin the defendants from selling the land described in the complaint, under an execution issued upon an order of the late District Court of Los Angeles County, whereby the defendant Alexander, Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles, was commanded to proceed and sell all the title and interest which one E. F. de Celis had in the land on the 2nd day of January, 1877, and which had been on that day levied on by a writ of attachment issued in an action brought by the defendant Pico against the said de Celis. The plaintiff is in possession of the land, claiming…
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