Warden

Warden v. Lamb

Good Law
1929 Cal. App. LEXIS 689·98 Cal. App. 738·277 P. 867
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 13, 1929Docket No. 3761.California2,321 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Plummer, J.

Plaintiff began this action to quiet title to a certain lot situate in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles. The defendant Lydia L. Lamb appeared and answered plaintiff’s complaint, denied the plaintiff’s title, and alleged title in herself. On the trial of the issues so joined, judgment was entered in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals. Upon this appeal the chief cause urged by the appellant as ground for reversal herein is “that the court erred in admitting, over plaintiff’s objection, the association of an attorney with the defendant, who appeared in propria persona.” Other objections are raised, but only in a minor way, as to whether the defendant had shown title in herself. The appellant sets forth her objections under eight different headings, or rather, numbers, but they all relate to the two specifications which we have mentioned.

The record shows that the respondent in filing her answer to the plaintiff’s complaint appeared in propria persona, and subsequently filed with the court the following:

Upon this writing being filed, it appears that a motion was made in court, at a time when counsel for the plaintiff was present, for the…

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