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138 Cal. 611

71 P 1123

Rucker v. Langford

California Supreme Court

Decided March 13, 1903

California Supreme Court · decided 1903-03-13

<p>Pormer Adjudication—Injunction to Restrain Sale—Parties.— Where the right of a third person to have premises sold to satisfy a lien has heen directly adjudicated against the plaintiff, she cannot avail herself of any matter which she might have pleaded in defense of the action to foreclose the lien, and cannot enjoin the .sheriff from making the sale on the ground that the premises in ■question were her homestead when the action was commenced, to the prejudice of the plaintiff in the former suit, who is not made a party to the action for the injunction.</p>

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Decided 1903-03-13

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1934

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THE COURT.

¶1 In the case of Citizens’ Bank versus the present plaintiff and her husband, B. F. Rucker, (San Francisco, No. 2159,) the judgment of the lower court has just been here affirmed. By that judgment the right of the Citizens’ Bank to have certain premises sold to satisfy its lien was directly adjudicated. Thereafter the plaintiff in the present *613 case—defendant in the former ease—brought this action to enjoin the defendant herein, who is sheriff, from selling the identical premises under an execution issued upon the said former judgment; and judgment herein was rendered perpetually enjoining the sheriff from so doing. From this judgment defendant appeals.

¶2 The only fact alleged in the present action not appearing in the former suit is, that at the time of the commencement of the former suit, and ever since, the premises in question constituted plaintiff’s homestead. But in the former suit the plaintiff herein had the opportunity of setting up all defenses which she then had to that action, and the’ judgment therein was conclusive against her as to those defenses. The execution on the former judgment cannot he enjoined upon any of the grounds here relied on, and certainly not to the prejudice of the plaintiff in the former suit who is not made a party to the present action.

¶3 The judgment is reversed.

¶4 Hearing in Bank denied.

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