Donner
Donner v. Palmer
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Rhodes, J.
The first question is, What was determined 'by this court on the former appeal? At the first trial in the court below, the jury returned a verdict against the intervener, and the court having granted the intervener a new trial, the plaintiff appealed. The plaintiff and intervener had entered into a stipulation by which certain facts were admitted, and it was agreed “that it is the intention and object of the foregoing stipulation to submit to the court, as a question of law, the question of priority of the foregoing judgments, liens and attachments, and which of the parties acquired, under the sales herein mentioned, the interest of said John Yontz in the property sold as hereinbefore stated, and that either party may offer and give in evidence any documentary evidence they may see proper.” The intervener stated in his brief on the former appeal that “the only point is, whether the taking out of the transcript of the judgment in the ease of Cobb v. Yontz, in Santa Clara county, after the two years had expired, and filing it in San Francisco, created a lien upon the premises.” Mr. Justice Crocker, in delivering *394 the opinion of the court, after reciting certain facts agreed to…