Fleming v. Langley
Fleming v. Langley
Opinion of the Court
Action by Nellie Fleming against F. S. Langley and Annie Langley, his wife, to recover $1,333.33, paid on the purchase price of a shingle mill. From a judgment in defendants’ favor, the plaintiff has appealed.
Appellant, who is a married woman living separate and apart from her husband, in her complaint alleged, that, on or about April 30, 1913, she and her husband, William R. Flem
Respondents, answering the complaint, denied that appellant had any interest in the mill; denied that she was in possession thereof at any time; denied any knowledge on their part that she had advanced any of the purchase money; and alleged that they sold the mill, by a written conditional bill of sale, to J. H. Weber alone; that respondents contracted with no other person; that the mill was personal property located on leased ground; that Weber defaulted in his payments; that respondent F. S. Langley thereupon instituted an action in replevin in the district court of Kootenai county, Idaho, to recover possession of the mill, and that final judgment was entered in his favor. Attached to the answer is a copy of the written contract of sale running from F. S. Langley to Weber alone, no mention of appellant or her husband being made therein.
The controlling issues are whether the mill was sold to Weber alone, or to appellant, her husband and Weber; also, whether respondents, at any time before they regained possession of the mill by the action in replevin, knew that appel
As the written contract of sale from respondent F. S. Lang- ' ley to Weber contained no provision for a forfeiture for nonpayment of purchase money, appellant claims that respondent F. S. Langley was not entitled to bring an action in replevin to regain possession; that he should have proceeded by foreclosure, and that appellant, as a party in interest, should have been made a party defendant. The Idaho court had jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the action as well as jurisdiction of the person of Weber,.the only vendee named in the contract. Its judgment, which cannot be attacked collaterally, is sufficient to protect respondents in their present possession. Even though error may have occurred during the trial of the action, that fact will not avoid the judgment.
Affirmed.
Moeeis, C. J., Fulleeton, Ellis, and Main, JJ., concur.
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- Judgment — Collateral Attack. Judgment in an action of replevin, by a court of a sister state having jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the person of the only defendant named as vendee in a bill of sale of the property, which determined the title to the property to he in the plaintiff, cannot be collaterally attached by one claiming to have an interest with defendant as one of the vendees, even though the judgment be erroneous.