Fisk

Fisk v. Mitchell

Good Law
124 Cal. 359·1899 Cal. LEXIS 999·57 P. 149
Supreme Court of CaliforniaMay 3, 1899Sac. No. 577California363 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Britt, J.

Action on a judgment alleged to have been duly given and made in favor of plaintiffs’ testator, in a suit hy him against Mitchell and Brown, in the justice’s court of the city and county of San Francisco. Such judgment was taken by default upon failure of said defendants to appear in the justice’s court. By his answer in the present case Brown raised the issue whether said judgment was duly given and made. Upon this issue plaintiffs introduced in evidence an abstract of *360 the judgment itself, and also 'a transcript of the justice’s docket entries pertaining thereto. Such entries showed the filing of a complaint by Asa Fisk, the testator, against the defendants, and that summons was issued; also the following: “May 26, 1892. Summons retd, served on defts. Mitchell and Brown, May 10 and 20, ’92, and filed.” There was no other proof that service of summons in that action was made. The court below, in this ease, however, seems to have considered it sufficient, and rendered judgment for plaintiffs.

By section 911 of the Code of Civil Procedure, every justice is required to enter certain specified proceedings in his docket, and the next section (912) declares such entries to be…

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