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61 Cal. 331

Perham v. Kuper

California Supreme Court

Decided August 25, 1882

California Supreme Court · decided 1882-08-25

Appeal^ from a judgment for the plaintiff and from an order denying a new trial in the Superior Court of the County of Trinity. Jomes, J. A petition for hearing in bank was filed in this case after judgment and denied.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1944

3 state decisions

Relies on Gross v. Fowler

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Decided 1882-08-25

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The Court :

¶1James Patterson owned a mine. Plaintiff claimed to have *332acquired the title to the mine through a sale under a decree purporting to foreclose a lien of a material-man; and introduced in evidence the judgment roll in an action Perham v. Patterson, an order of sale, Sheriff’s return thereon, and Sheriff’s deed to plaintiff. Defendants, appellants, allege here that the sale under the decree was void as against defendants, who were attaching creditors.

¶2When the judgment-roll was offered, the relation of defendants to the property had not been made to appear, and there is, in the bill of exceptions, no specification of insufficiency of evidence pointing toward the invalidity now asserted.

¶3It is also urged that the Court had no jurisdiction of the person or property of Patterson, because the judgment-roll contains no proof of the publication of summons in the action Perham v. Patterson. But no objection was made to the judgment-roll when it was offered in evidence, and the bill of exceptions contains no specification of deficiency in the evidence to the effect that the judgment-roll and deed did not show title in plaintiff; nor even a specification that the plaintiff s title was not made out by the evidence.

¶4Defendants claimed under a Sheriff’s deed which was executed on the fifth of April, 1875, the execution sale having taken place October 5, 1874. The judgment debtor had the whole of the fifth day of April, 1875, to redeem. (C. C. P., §§ 12, 702.) The act of redemption was to bé done within six months after the sale. The Sheriff had power to execute the deed only after the period for redemption had passed. The deed is void. (Gross v. Fowler, 21 Cal. 392; Bernal v. Gleim, 33 id. 668; Moore v. Martin, 38 id. 428; Hall v. Yoell, 45 id. 584.)

¶5It may be that the Court below should have found that the defendants had an estate, right, title, or interest in, and were entitled to the possession of the land, by virtue of the judgment, sale, and certificate of sale. But there is in the bill of exceptions no specification of insufficiency of the evidence to justify any of the findings, nor any such specification, except as to the evidence on which the Court found that the Sheriff’s deed was void.

¶6Judgment and order affirmed.

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