Douglass v. Brooks
Douglass v. Brooks
Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from a judgment rendered for the defendant on a demurrer to the complaint. It appears from the complaint that on the 28th of July, 1865, the defendant commenced an action in the Twelfth District Court against the present plaintiffs, to quiet his title to a lot in San Francisco, of which he was in possession; that the defendants therein appeared to the action and filed a demurrer and answer at the same time; that the cause was afterwards transferred for trial to the District Court for Alameda County; that in June, 1866, in the absence of the defendants therein, the cause was brought on for trial by the plaintiff before the Court, without a jury, and before the Court had disposed of the demurrer to the complaint; that on the trial a judgment was rendered for the plaintiff quieting his title, as' prayed for; that thereupon the defendants therein moved the Court, on affidavits, to set aside the judgment, which motion was denied; that thereupon the said defendants appealed to this Court from said order and the judgment; that on the hearing of the appeal the order and judgment were affirmed, on the ground that it did not appear from the record that the demurrer to the complaint was not disposed of before the trial; that the then defendants (present plaintiffs) “made a mistake in not positively stating, in said affi
Judgment affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- WILLIAM J. DOUGLASS v. EDMOND BROOKS
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- Pleading—Mistake.—In an action to set aside a former judgment between the same parties on the ground of mistake, if tho complaint fails to make explanation of the mistake, or the causes which produced it, it fails to set forth facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.