Shannon
La Paloma Land Co. v. Shannon
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Plummer, J.
This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the trial court granting a motion interposed after judgment - by the respondent Cora B. Campbell to set aside, after judgment, a judgment obtained by the plaintiff in an action wherein the La Paloma Land Company, a corporation, was plaintiff and Carl W. Shannon, as administrator of the estate of Duncan Campbell, deceased, John Doe, Richard Roe, and Jane Doe were named as defendants, and in which action dismissal was entered as to the fictitious defendants John Doe, Richard Roe, and Jane Doe.
The record in this action shows that one Duncan Campbell died in the county of Stanislaus, state of California, on or about the sixteenth day of June, 1919. That thereafter Carl W. Shannon, the public administrator of the county of Stanislaus, on or about the eighth day of July, 1924, filed a petition in the office of the county clerk of Stanislaus County setting forth that the said Duncan Campbell was a resident of the county of Stanislaus at the time of his death, and left estate therein, and praying for his appointment as administrator thereof, the petition setting forth that there were no known heirs of said decedent residing in the…