124 Wash. 163 | Wash. | 1923
— In the case of Mychel Co. v. Gardiner, 117 Wash. 704, 202 Pac. 1119, this court sustained the judgment of the superior court of Snohomish county, which determined that the defendant, Gardiner, was holding certain mining claims in trust for the plaintiff, Mychel Company. Before the remittitur had gone down, and in violation of the injunction, Gardiner transferred the claims and rendered it impossible for him to comply with the decree of the court that he transfer the claims to the plaintiff. Thereafter an application was made in the same action for an order impressing the trust upon the proceeds of the sale of the claims, and ordering the administrator of Gardiner’s estate to pay such funds to the plaintiff in lieu of the conveyances provided for in the original decree, Gardiner in the meantime having died. Upon the hearing, such an order was made, from which this appeal is taken.
The appeal raises two questions.
First, it is the contention of the appellant that the court was in error in permitting the introduction in evidence of Exhibit A, which is the certified copy of the deed of the mining claims from Gardiner. The claims were located in the Province of British Columbia, and Exhibit A is a copy of the deed certified by the registrar of titles of the land registry office at Nelson, B. C., as being a true copy of the conveyance deposited in his office. The deed bears no acknowledgment. Under the laws of this state, Rem. Comp. Stat., § 10570, an acknowledgment is necessary for the trans: fer of real estate. Section 10596, Rem. Comp. Stat., provides for the certification of copies of deeds which
It is argued, on the other hand, by the respondent that the only presumption, in the absence of proof of the laws of a foreign jurisdiction, is that the common law of the foreign jurisdiction is the same as that of this jurisdiction, but that the presumption does not extend to the statutory law.
It is unnecessary to reopen this question and to determine how far the courts will engage in presumptions as to the laws of other jurisdictions, for, as we view the record, this question has not been preserved to the appellant. When Exhibit A was offered in evidence, a general objection to it was made that it was incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial and not properly certified or exemplified. It may be conceded that this
■ ‘ ‘ There is nothing to show that this is the officer that is the legal custodian that is vested by the law in British Columbia with the duty of recording or keeping a record of this character, anyway.”
By this we take it that appellant’s counsel waived all objection to the introduction of Exhibit A except that it was not certified by the proper officer. Waiving the objection that the deed had not been acknowledged, we think it is too late for him now to urge that objection he is here making, and that the trial court was correct in admitting Exhibit A in evidence.
Second, it is urged that there was no competent evidence in the record to sustain the findings that the sum of $8,160, found by the administrator in a bank in San Francisco, was the proceeds of the sale of the mining claims, which, according to the testimony, brought the price of $10,000. The testimony shows that Gardiner was in financial difficulties to the extent that even his life insurance had been hypothecated; that he had made a. contract for the sale of these claims for the sum of $10,000; that the deed showed that consideration; that the appellant, about the time the deed was made, deposited in the .bank in San Francisco, far removed
Maih, C. J., Bridges, Holcomb, and Mitchell, JJ.;' concur.