People ex rel. Bowman v. Hovious
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth District. Application for mandamus to compel the defendant as Sheriff of San Mateo county, to execute a deed to relator of certain lands in that county heretofore sold by said Sheriff under execution and bid in by plaintiff. The Court below awarded the writ. Defendant appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion of this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtCope, J.
Baldwin, J. concurring.
This is an application for a mandamus. The following are the *474facts: On the sixth of July, 1855, Thomas A. Lynch recovered a judgment in the late Superior Court of the city of San Francisco, against Alvin Adams, Daniel H. Haskell, and Isaac C. Woods, for the sum of $10,143.06, which judgment was duly docketed in the office of the Clerk of that Court, as required by the statute. On the eighteenth of August, 1859, the relator recovered a judgment in the District Court for San Mateo county, against the same defendants, for the sum of $5,000, and certain lands situated in…
2Cited by1 opinion
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