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47 Cal. 619

Ekel v. Swift

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1874

California Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01

The action was replevin. There was no appearance at the trial on behalf of the defendant and the plaintiff obtained a judgment. Subsequently the defendant applied to have the judgment set aside upon the grounds mentioned by the Court. The application was denied, and the defendant appealed from the order denying it.

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Decided 1874-07-01

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1923

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By the Court:

¶1The ground upon which the application to set aside the judgment below was rested in the main, was the misapprehension of the defendant’s attorney as to the setting down of the cause. It had been set down for trial at the May term, 1873, but was not reached during that term owing to the ill health of the Judge of the District Court. At the following June term the May calendar of trial causes was ifaken up, and the causes undisposed of again set down for trial. The attorney of the defendant did not attend the June term, and the only reason given for his non-attendance' was ill health—not a sudden attack, but the usual degree of indisposition under which he habitually labored and had suffered for more than one year previously to the trial, rendering him, as he says, at times “unable to attend the Court or attend to any business.” The Court was held, and the cause subsequently tried in open Court in the same city in which the attorney resides.

¶2Under such circumstances we cannot disturb the action of the Court below in denying the motion to set aside the judgment.

¶3Judgment and order affirmed. Remittitur forthwith.

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