Brown
Brown v. Tropp
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Finch, J.
This is an appeal by the defendant from an order denying his motion to recall an execution issued on the judgment herein and to stay the execution of the judgment perpetually, on the ground that the judgment “was discharged by the defendant being adjudicated •bankrupt on the 10th day of July, 1926,” and “discharged in bankruptcy on the 5th day of November, 1926, and . . . that the claim upon which the judgment was obtained was scheduled as a liability in said bankruptcy.”
It appears that the judgment, which was for the amount of a promissory note and interest thereon, was entered December 10, 1924. In his affidavit in support of the motion the defendant states “that he filed his schedules in said bankruptcy and in the said schedules was included the name of the plaintiff, . . . Theodore Brown; that the address of the said Theodore Brown at the time of filing said schedules was unknown to the affiant; that this affiant exercised every means in his possession in the city of San Francisco to determine the address of said Theodore Brown; that this affiant believed that one Carroll Allen, attorney in the city of Los Angeles, was acquainted with said Theodore Brown and said Theodore…