Taliaferro

These are appeals from judgments in two separate actions involving the same parties and identical issues. They are particularly concerned with the cross-complaint filed in each of said actions by appellant, Eugene A. Taliaferro, against his former wife, respondent, Dorothy Davis, also known as Dorothy Taliaferro. This is another of a long list of appeals arising from the 1944 divorce of the parties. As stated by this court in Taliaferro v. Taliaferro, 200 Cal.App.2d 190 [ 19 Cal.Rptr. 220 ]: “The interests of justice and the equities of the case require us to take judicial notice of related prior proceedings.” (P. 191; citing Watson v. Los Altos School Dist., 149 Cal.App.2d 768, 772 [ 308 P.2d 872 ], and listing each of said proceedings in the footnote; see also Taliaferro v. Taliaferro, 178 Cal.App.2d 140, 142 [ 2 Cal.Rptr. 716 ]; and Flores v. Arroyo, 56 Cal.2d 492, 496 [ 15 Cal.Rptr. 87 , 364 P.2d 263 ].)

The previous appeals disclose the following background: On January 3, 1944, respondent obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from appellant pursuant to which a final decree was entered on January 10,1945. The said parties had entered into a property settlement…