5 Wash. 534 | Wash. | 1893
The opinion of the court was delivered by
On May 18, 1891, the plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant in the superior court for Spokane county. 'Soon after the rendition of such judgment the defendant filed a motion to vacate the same, for various reasons set out in said motion. After argument by counsel for the respective parties, the court took such motion under advisement, and on the 30th day of November, following, entered an order overruling and denying the same. Some months thereafter the defendant sued out of this court a writ of certiorari to bring the record here for review, and seeks thereby to have said judgment vacated and set aside.
The first question presented for our decision is, as to whether or not such defendant had a remedy by appeal. It is conceded that if such remedy was available to him certiorari will not lie. The ground upon which it is claimed by the defendant that he should be allowed relief by way of such writ is, that the court held his motion to vacate the judgment until more than six months had elapsed after the date
It follows that he was not entitled to have the record