Credit Bureau of San Diego, Inc. v. Petrasich
Credit Bureau of San Diego, Inc. v. Petrasich
Opinion of the Court
The appeal is from a portion only of a judgment rendered in an action in which appellees Petrasich and Kuglis
The case has been here before. Credit Bureau of San Diego v. Petrasich, 9 Cir., 97 F.2d 65. The events leading up to the interpleader suit are related in detail in the earlier opinion. Enough to say now by way of introduction that, on a claim assigned to it, appellant recovered a judgment against appellees in a state court for the sum of $1,020.37, including $301.15 costs. While the state court action was-pending the United States served on appellees notice of a distraint and levy upon all property belonging to one Salazar and demanded payment to its internal revenue collector of the moneys sued for by appellant
After the dismissal of that appeal the United States was substituted for the collector. It filed a cross-complaint claiming the fund deposited as the property of Salazar. Appellant answered the cross-complaint, and on the issues set up in these pleadings there was a trial of the respective claims of the United States and the Credit Bureau to the fund on deposit.
The judgment entered was in two parts. Part I is as follows:
“That the sum of $1025.77 on deposit with the clerk of this court in this action shall be distributed as follows:
“(a) To the United States of America the sum of $674.62 on account of the income tax liability of Luis M. Salazar;
“(b) To Credit Bureau of San Diego, Inc., a corporation, the sum of $301.15;
“(c) To William H. Wylie the sum of $50.00.”
Part II of the judgment is as follows: “That the Credit' Bureau of San Diego, Inc., a corporation, or its assignees, is hereby permanently enjoined from attempting to collect any sums whatever from either Vincent Petrasich or Peter A. Kuglis, or either of them doing business as the Star Fisheries under the judgment of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of San Diego rendered in behalf of the Credit Bureau of San Diego, Inc., against the said Vincent Petrasich and Peter A. Kuglis on the purported assignment from A. A. Parades to the Credit Bureau of San Diego, Inc.”
Appellant has voluntarily accepted and retains the amount awarded it in part I of the judgment, but for all other purposes it ignores that feature of the adjudication. Nor has it brought up for review or specified as error the interlocutory order requiring it and the collector to litigate their respective demands. Recognizing, presumably, that a party may not ordinarily take the fruits of a judgment and at the same time appeal from it, the Credit Bureau has appealed from part II only; that is to say, it seeks a review and reversal merely of the order enjoining it from attempting to collect the state court judgment.
The chief proposition argued on the appeal is that the court had no jurisdiction of the subject matter, either under the inter-pleader act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 41(26), or under the terms of the general statute, 28 U.S.C. A. § 41(1).
Appellant says that the disposition of the balance of the fund on deposit is a matter of -entire indifference to it; but we confess difficulty in seeing any justification for this professed air of detachment. The judgment below was not rendered in vacuo ; it has its roots in the antecedent pleadings and in the findings of the court. Pos
Appeal dismissed.
Petrasich and Kuglis will be referred to throughout as appellees. While the United States was served with notice of the appeal it has not participated in the proceeding here.
So stated in finding XIX. While the government’s cross-complaint is in the record, appellant’s answer to it is not.
The amount awarded Wylie was 'for an attorney’s fee for the prosecution of the interpleader suit.
Consult Security Trust & Savings Bank v. Walsh, 9 Cir., 91 F.2d 481.
Reference
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- CREDIT BUREAU OF SAN DIEGO, Inc. v. PETRASICH
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- Published