Hewitt

Hewitt v. Great Western Beet Sugar Co.

Good Law
144 C.C.A. 536·230 F. 394·1916 U.S. App. LEXIS 1448
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFebruary 7, 1916No. 2610California1,255 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Gilbert, J.

(after stating the facts as above). [1] The appellant contends that the decree rendered by the state court of Idaho upon his suit to foreclose his mortgage is void, for the reason that the trial court went outside the issues in the case and determined that the receiver’s certificates constituted a lien prior to that of the appellant. It does not appear in the present bill, which is brought to' set aside the decree of the state court and the proceedings had thereunder, that the certificate holders were not made parties to the suit in the state court. They were proper parties, and we may *397 assume that they were parties from the fact that the state court decreed them a first lien on the mortgaged property. Taking the allegation of the bill in the case which is now before us to be true, that those certificates had been made a first lien in a prior suit to which the appellant herein was not a party, and of which he had no notice, it would follow that his rights were not concluded thereby, and that he still had the right thereafter to contest that question. He had full opportunity to do so in his foreclosure suit. Instead of doing so, he seems to have proceeded upon the theory that…

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