Larsen v. Gasberg
Larsen v. Gasberg
Opinion of the Court
This is an action to quiet title to a city lot and a 5-acre tract of land situate in Box Elder county, Utah. Plaintiff, in her complaint filed September 13, 1904, claims title in fee to the property, and alleges that defendant claims an estate or interest therein adverse to her, and further alleges that defendant has no estate, title, or interest whatever in or to said land or any part thereof, and asks that defendant be required to set forth the nature of his claim. The defendant answered denying that plaintiff has any interest in the property except a life estate, and set up’ title in himself subject to the
It appears from the record that on June 15, 1897, plaintiff, Mrs. Larsen, in whom was the legal title to the premises mentioned, deeded the same to J. B. Carrington, reserving to' herself and husband a life estate in the property so conveyed. It is also provided in the deed that in case the grantee, J. B. Carrington, shall die before the grantors, then the premises conveyed shall revert back to the grantor. On October 28, 1897, J. B. Carrington and his wife, Katherine Carrington, deeded the property in question to Clara Carrington, their minor daughter. The consideration mentioned in the deed is “the sum of one dollar and love and affection.” On April 2, 1898, the defendant, Gasberg, and one Charles Miller obtained a judgment against J. B. Carrington in the district court of Box Elder county, Utah, for $740.05 on an indebtedness which antedated the execution of the deed from J. B. Car-rington and Katherine Carrington to Clara Carrington. An execution was duly issued on the judgment thus obtained, and all the right, title, and interest which J. B. Carrington had in and to the property in question was levied upon, duly advertised, and sold at public sale August 20, 1898, the same being purchased by Miller and Gasberg, judgment creditors in said suit. On August 19, 1898, the day before the interest of J. B. Carrington in and to said premises was sold as aforesaid, Jens Larsen and Christena Larsen commenced an action in the district court of Box Elder county, Utah, against J. B. Carrington and Clara Carrington to have the deed to said premises, which was executed by Christena J. Larsen to J. B. Carrington June 1,1897, delivered up and canceled on the ground that the same was obtained through fraud and without any consideration; also to' have the deed from J. B. Carring-ton and Katherine Carrington to Clara Carrington canceled on the ground that she took said deed with knowledge of the facts constituting the alleged fraud and failure of consideration. Gasberg, who had, in the meantime, acquired Miller’s
• Plaintiff introduced the deed from herself to J. B. Car-rington and the deed from J. B. Carrington and Katherine Carxfington in evidence together with the judgment roll in the case above mentioned and rested. No evidence was offered of the facts upon which it is claimed that the deed from plaintiff to J. B. Carrington was obtained through fraud and without consideration, other than the judgment roll mentioned. While there was no finding to that effect the court evidently proceeded and decided the case upon the theory contended for by respondent in her brief, namely, that whatever interest or color of .title Carrington had in and to the premises was extinguished by the judgment in that case, and as Gasbei’g claims title through Carrington he, too, is bound thereby. When the judgment in favor of Miller and Gasberg, and against Car-rington, was entered and docketed (April 2, 1898) it became a lien upon whatever interest or estate Carrington had in the property in question. (Section 3198, Kev. St. 1898.) This judgment lien attached to Carrington’s interest long pxfior to the time of the filing of the lis pendens of the suit by Jens Larsen and Christena Larsen against the Carringtons to have the deeds mentioned delivei’ed up and canceled. Therefore Miller and Gasberg were necessary parties to the action, and not having been made parties they are not concluded by the judgment. (21 A. & E. Ency. L. [2 Ed.], 648.)
When Miller and Gasberg obtained their judgment the record title to the premises in question was in Carrington subject only to a joint life estate in favor of plaintiff and her
The judgment is reversed, with directions to the lower court to grant a new trial. Costs of this appeal to ba taxed againt respondent.
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