Cunnison v. Miller

JAMES, J.

Defendant Evans prosecutes this appeal from an order made by the trial court denying the motion of said defendant to have set aside a judgment taken against him after service of summons and complaint had been regularly made and default entered. The notice of appeal also states that the defendant appeals from the “deficiency judgment made and entered against him in said action.”

The appeal is taken under the so-called and most unsatisfactory “alternative method,” but appellant has failed to follow the statute in that no part of the record to which he desires to call attention is printed in his brief. Having omitted to comply with the direction of the statute in that regard, no duty is imposed upon this court to examine the typewritten transcript.

(Marcucci

v.

Vowinckel,

164 Cal. 693, [130 Pac. 430];

Wills

v.

Woolner,

21 Cal. App. 528, [132 Pac. 283];

Miller

v.

Oliver,

174 Cal. 404, 407, [163 Pac. 355, 357];

Pasadena Realty Co.

v.

Clune, ante,

p. 33, [166 Pac.

1025]; McKinnell

v.

Hansen, ante,

p. 76, [167 Pac. 887].)

We have, however, looked over the briefs and in an abstract way considered the propositions argued therein. The appellant, it is stated, was the mortgagee named in a certain mortgage. This mortgage and the accompanying note he transferred to this plaintiff. The transfer of the note was effected by a simple indorsement on the back. The plaintiff bringing this action to foreclose the mortgage, joined appellant as a party for the purpose of securing a deficiency judgment against him in the event that by sale of the security the debt was not satisfied. The sale of the property did not in fact produce sufficient money to satisfy the mortgage debt, and deficiency judgment was entered against appellant for the sum of $401.50. This appellant, after service of summons, made no appearance in the action and allowed judgment to be taken against Mm by default. He afterward made motion, based upon the alleged ground of mistake, inadvertence, surprise, and excusable neglect, to have this judgment set aside, which motion was by the court denied. The matter of determining such a motion rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge, and upon the statement of the facts as