Hoeft
Hoeft v. Hotchkiss
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Finch, J.
This is an appeal from the order of the .trial court herein “denying plaintiff’s motion to set aside the judgment and decree and the referee’s report.” The record consists of the final decree in the action and the motion to vacate, together with affidavits introduced at the hearing of the motion and the order denying the same. It appears that an “interlocutory judgment and decree” was entered and F. R. Hull appointed to take an account; that he took such account and reported his findings to the court; and that thereafter the court “recast and restated” the account in many particulars and entered judgment upon the findings as so corrected.
Appellant contends that the motion should have been granted on the ground that she had no notice of the hearing before the referee. She introduced affidavits stating that neither she nor her attorney were notified of such hearing. She resided in Nevada City at the time of the hearing and her attorney had his office in San Francisco. The referee made affidavit that he duly mailed notices of the hearing to the plaintiff and to her attorney six days before the time set for such hearing. Regardless of other questions, the motion was properly denied…