Brown

The case of Priest v. Brown et al., in which Joseph Brown and A. M. Brown were two of the-defendants, was commenced in the superior court for the city and county of San Francisco, April 13, 1887,. and was tried in Department One of that court before the Hon. T. K. Wilson, and judgment was rendered by him in favor of the defendants, and was entered.November 24, 1888. The action was brought for the purpose *647 of subjecting to sale, under the direction of the court, certain real property alleged to have been fraudulently conveyed by Joseph Brown to A. M. Brown, and the application of a portion of the proceeds thereof to the payment of a claim of the plaintiff against Joseph Brown. While that action was pending Henry C.. Campbell and Thaddeus B. Kent, two of the appellants herein, who held the legal title to the property, sold the same, and A. M. Brown commenced the present action in the same court to recover from them two thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents, the amount of certain surplus moneys in their hands, arising from the sale of said property. This cause was assigned to Department Six of that court. In their answer to the complaint Campbell and Kent…