Boston v. Haynes
Boston v. Haynes
Opinion of the Court
We are unable to find anything in the complaint which entitles the plaintiff to a new trial in the case of Wenborn v. Boston and Wife. On the contrary, the complaint is entirely silent as to what transpired at the trial of that case except that the trial took place in their absence. Why they were absent is not stated. It is not stated that the trial was brought on in their absence by the fraud of the plaintiff. In short, none of the grounds upon which equity will interfere and grant a new trial are stated or attempted to be stated. (Mulford v. Cohn, 18 Cal. 46; Mastick v. Thorp, 29 Cal. 447.) On the contrary, the complaint would seem to b of do de se on the question of new trial. It is alleged that a motion for a new trial was made and granted upon the condition that the defendants pay the plaintiffs’ costs up to that date. True,- it
So far as this case can be regarded, as an action to set aside and cancel the power of attorney from the plaintiff's to Strathearn, and the deed from him to Wenborn, and to restore the plaintiffs to the possession of the land, the complaint is also felo de se, for it is conclusively answered by the record and judgment in the action of Wenborn against the plaintiffs to quiet the title which is set out and referred to. By referring to the answer of Boston and wife in that case, it will be found to contain, substantially, the same allegations upon the question of the validity of the power of attorney and deed, and the condition of the title, which are found in the present complaint. Such being the case, the judgment in that action is conclusive upon the same matters in this.
Judgment affirmed.
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- WILLIAM W. BOSTON and SARAH BOSTON, his Wife v. THOMAS J. HAYNES, JOSEPH YATES, DAVID CALDERWOOD, WILLIAM J. DOUGLASS, and ELIZABETH, his Wife, and SAMUEL WEBB, of the Last Will of John A. Wenborn
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- New Trial.—A Court of equity will not grant a new trial in an action at law because the party asking it was absent at the trial, where no circumstances of fraud are alleged. Idem.—If the party moving for a new trial in an action at law, loses the same through his own blunders and laches, without any fraud, mistake, surprise, or excusable neglect existing, equity will not relieve him. Judgment as a Bar.—A judgment is conclusive upon all the issues raised in the pleadings, and the parties are precluded from litigating the same matter in a new action.