59 Cal. 181 | Cal. | 1881
This case arises out of an action for the specific performance of a contract for the conveyance of a tract of land, and for the recovery of the rents and profits of the same.
By a decree in the action, rendered January 23d, 1873, the plaintiff was adjudged entitled to a conveyance from the defendants of the interests of certain heirs, under whom he claimed title, and to the rents and profits of the land from
But no new trial was ordered, and none was necessary; for the Supreme Court had determined the rights of the parties, and that determination was a final adjudication of the case itself, which only required to be embodied in form by the entry of a proper judgment in the lower Court, to make it enforceable. The entry of such a judgment was the only duty devolved upon the Court, under the mandate of the Supreme Court. (Keller v. Lewis, 56 Cal. 466.) If upon the going down of the remittitur from the Supreme Court the lower Court had retried the case, and upon such new trial had rendered a judgment, it would have been void. (Argenti v. San Francisco, 30 Cal. 460.)
It is, however, urged that the opinion of the Supreme Court was not a final adjudication of the case, because there was no finding by the lower Court upon an issue presented in the case, as to the time when the defendants acquired the rights which they claimed. If there had been, it is urged, there would have been found-that their rights had accrued three days before the plaintiff acquired his equitable interest in the land by the deed, which was passed upon by the Supreme Court; and in the absence of a finding upon the issue, the defendants’ rights were not considered and determined, and therefore the opinion of the Supreme Court in the case can not be final and conclusive against the defendants.
Judgment affirmed.
MoKinstky, J., and Boss, J., concurred.