Appeal from the Fourth District, County of San Francisco.

This action in the Court below was Ernest Cordier v. M. Schloss, Joseph Heilbroner, Joseph S. Kohn, Morris Kohn and David Scannell.

At the date of the transactions in the case, the defendants, M. Schloss and Joseph Heilbroner (who are the only appellants), were merchants in New York, residing there and doing business under the name of Schloss & Heilbroner. The other defendants, Joseph S. Kohn and Morris Kohn, were dealers in San Francisco or Sacramento, under the name of Joseph S. Kohn & Brother, and insolvent. The remaining defendant, David Seannell, was Sheriff of the County of San Francisco.

On February 18th, 1857, a judgment by confession for $2,616, with $13.75 costs, in favor of the defendants, Schloss & Heilbroner, against the defendants, Joseph S. and Morris Kohn, was entered up in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District.

The statement on which the judgment was entered is as follows :

Statement.

“ The defendants state and admit that they are justly indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum of two thousand and four hundred dollars, and interest thereon at the rate of one per cent, per month, from the fifteenth day of May, 1856, for which amount they consent that judgment may be entered against them by the Clerk of said District Court, in his office; and the facts out of which said indebtedness accrued, are as follows, to wit: That the plaintiffs are the owners of the'following promissory note, made by said defendants, to wit:

“ ‘ Sacramento, May 15th, 1859.

“ ‘ $2,400.

“ ‘ Eight months after date we promise to pay to the order of ourselves, in the City of New York, two thousand and four hundred dollors, at the rate of one per cent. (1 pr. ct.) per month until paid, value received.

“ ‘ (Signed) JOSEPH S. KOHN & RRO.’

“ That the said note was given by the said defendants to the said plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered to the defendants by the firm of Schloss & Heilbroner, the plaintiffs aforesaid, and money had and received by defendants; that the consideration for said promissory note was said money and goods, sold by plaintiffs to, and received by them, the defendants aforesaid.

“ That the sum above by us confessed, is justly due to the said plaintiffs, on the foregoing note, after allowing all just credits and offsets, without any fraud whatever, for which amount they do hereby authorize the Clerk of said Court to enter up judgment against them, the said defendants.”

Dated, Sah Francisco,

the day of February, 1857.

City and County of San Francisco, ss : *

“ Joseph S. Kohn and Morris Kohn, the defendants aforesaid, each for himself, being sworn, says that the above statement of confession is true.

(Signed) JOSEPH S. KOHN,

MORRIS KOHN.

Sworn to before me, this eighteenth day of February, A. D. 1857.

P. K. Woodside,

Dep. Co. Clerk.”

Upon this judgment, execution was, on the same day, issued to the defendant, Scannell, under which he levied on all the property of the defendants, Kohn, being the entire stock of dry goods in their store in San Francisco.

The next day, February 19th, 1857, the plaintiff in this action commenced suit in the same Court, against the defendants Kohn, for goods sold and delivered, and money lent and advanced, and issued an attachment for the amount to Scannell, Sheriff. In this latter action judgment was, in due course, recovered by the plaintiff for $1,795, with $74 costs.

The goods in the hands of the Sheriff having been sold, produced about $2,400. This being insufficient to satisfy the execution of Schloss & Heilbroner, and the attachment of the plaintiff, the latter, on March 28th, 1857, commenced the present action (in equity) against all the defendants above named, to set aside the judgment by confession in favor of Schloss & Heilbroner, as fraudulent and void in law and in fact; to have the levy of their excution postponed to the levy of the plaintiff’s attachment, and to have the proceeds of the sale in the Sheriff’s hands subjected first to the plaintiff’s attachment, and for general relief; also for a temporary injunction.

To the complaint, which was verified, separate demurrers were interposed by the defendants, Schloss & Heilbroner. The demurrers were overruled, and they answered separately, as did also the defendants Kohn. The case was tried before the Court without] a jury, and the Court decreed that the judgment by confession, so far as it affects the lien and judgment oj^the plaintiff in this action, be set aside.

Schloss & Heilbroner appealed to this Court.

Many points were raised by the record and argued by counsel, which this Court declined to pass upon, deeming it sufficient to reverse the judgment of the Court below upon the authority of the case of Richards v. McMillan et al., 6 Cal. 419.