Brennan v. Brennan
Brennan v. Brennan
Opinion of the Court
The judgment rendered at the instance of the moving party, the executrix of D. Brennan, deceased, was in legal effect a judgment against her. She had then been made a party. Her testator had then died. Ho valid judgment could have been entered against the testator after his death. The new judgment was one against the testatrix, to be paid in due course of administration.
It makes no differencé that the judgment was not formally entered. The court can order it to be entered properly nune pro tuno, there being enough in the record to amend by. In this view the filing of the certified copy of the original docket of the judgment among the papers of the estate of D. Brennan, deceased, in court, was sufficient. (Code Civ. Proc. § 1514.) This document was filed in the case as required by law. But conceding that the modified judgment was one against the testator, and that the order merely amounted to a reduction of the judgment against the testator, the testatrix, then, having been made a party to the cause, on the pendency of the motion for a new trial, the judgment was really .presented to her. She appeared on the motion for a new trial, and succeeded in procuring a modification of the judgment, and a reduction of it by $547.59. She was a party to the action and took part in the litigation. The testator had fully defended the action; judgment had passed against him, he served notice of intention to move for a new trial, and then died. Before the hearing of this
Judgment and order affirmed.
Myrick, J., and Sharpstein, J., concurred.
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- IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL BRENNAN, BRIDGET BRENNAN, OF THE WILL OF THOMAS BRENNAN, and v. HANNAH BRENNAN, OF THE WILL OF DANIEL BRENNAN
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- Administbation—Judgment—Pbesentation of Claim.—A party against whom a money judgment had been rendered, moved for a new trial, and died before the motion was determined. His executrix was substituted as defendant, and prosecuted the motion, and obtained an order modifying the judgment, hut no new judgment was entered. Held, that the judgment as modified was a claim against the estate which should he paid in due course of administration, and that no presentation of the claim to the executrix was required.