Martin v. Soden

BURTON, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a new trial in a case instituted by plaintiff-respondent, assignee of a lien, for the purpose of foreclosing his lien. A decision of the issues tendered by the appeal, however, requires not only a review of proceedings in connection with the application for a new trial, but of proceedings in a case instituted in the year 1949 by Jackson E. Soden as plaintiff against Alice A. Soden, defendant, praying for a divorce and division of community property. To assist in distinguishing the two cases which must necessarily be discussed in…