Harper

On the 20th of May, 1873, the People of California recovered ,a judgment in the Eighteenth District Court against Doe ct al. and certain real estate situated in San Diego County, for the sum of $729.60, for State and county taxes levied against the said real estate for the fiscal year ending April, 1872, and for the sum of $124.83 for attorney’s fees in said action, and for the *134 further sum of $48.33 costs of suit. By the judgment it was also decreed that so much of the real estate as should be “ sufficient to raise said taxes and attorney’s fees and costs, and all accruing costs herein, and the costs and expenses of the sale,” be sold at public action by or under the direction of the Sheriff of the County of San Diego, etc. Under this decree the Sheriff sold the property in question, being a portion of the property assessed, at public auction for the sum of $999.52, said amount being the sum total of the taxes, attorney’s fees, and costs, as fixed in the decree, together with the costs incident to the sale, in which latter was included the sum of fifty cents for filing the duplicate certificate of sale with the County Becorder. The validity of the judgment under which the…