Wilbur

Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Wilbur

Good Law
56 Cal. App. 604·205 P. 886
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaFebruary 23, 1922Civ. No. 4117.California593 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Sturtevant, J.

The plaintiff sued the defendant in an action to quiet title; the plaintiff had judgment; the de fendant moved the lower court to vacate the judgment and the lower court denied the motion. The defendant appealed from the judgment in chief and from the order refusing to vacate.

The appellant has filed a transcript which contains a copy of the judgment-roll, and has inserted in the judgment-roll some papers which the statute does not authorize to be included therein, and has printed in the transcript some other papers not authorized to be printed therein; but she has not brought up a bill of exceptions. The appellant makes but one point, and that is, that the trial court did not have jurisdiction of the defendant and cross-complainant at the time it ordered judgment in favor of plaintiff. In support of this point she calls to our attention the fact that the defendant’s answer, and also the cross-complaint, are signed Edith M. Wilbur in propria persona. At this point it should be stated that there is nothing in the judgment-roll showing that the answer to the cross-complaint was not served on Edith M. Wilbur in propria persona. [1] On the other hand, the judgment and decree recite…

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