238 P. 639 | Wash. | 1925
This is an original proceeding in this court wherein the relators, Brunn and Turner, pray that the superior court for King county be prohibited from entertaining jurisdiction of supplemental proceedings, commenced therein for the examination of relators as judgment debtors as to what property they own, looking to the satisfaction of a judgment rendered against them in that court, as follows: *641
"It Is Hereby Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that the defendants, Joe O. Neal, May Neal, and said Helen Stanley are in default upon their respective bonds *642 hereinabove more fully described, and that said bonds, and each of them, are hereby declared forfeited, and that the plaintiff herein the state of Washington, do have and recover judgment as follows:
"1. Against the defendant Joe O. Neal and his sureties Sidney Brunn and E.S. Turner, in the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars;
"2. Against the defendant May Neal and her sureties Sidney Brunn and E.S. Turner, in the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars;
"3. Against said Helen Stanley and her sureties, Sidney Brunn and E.S. Turner, in the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars;
"4. That the clerk of the above-entitled Court issue execution thereon forthwith.
"Done in open Court this 18th day of February, 1925."
Counsel for relators make several contentions which plainly can only be entertained here upon appeal from the judgment, or upon appeal from some judgment which might be rendered in an appropriate proceeding directly and not collaterally attacking the judgment. So we are here concerned only with the validity of the judgment, as viewed upon its face; and, if the judgment is valid upon its face, manifestly it will support supplemental proceedings until satisfied, or, by proper bond, superseded upon appeal therefrom, or until set aside in some appropriate proceeding directly attacking it; none of which is here claimed to have occurred.
It appears from the recitals of the judgment that the bail bonds were duly executed by relators as sureties and that the principals failed to appear in court upon "due notice and command to appear." Section 2231, Rem. Comp. Stat. [P.C. § 9347], relating to the rendering of such judgments, reads:
"In criminal cases where a recognizance for the appearance of any person, either as a witness or to appear *643 and answer, shall have been taken and a default entered, the recognizance shall be declared forfeited by the court, and at the time of adjudging such forfeiture said court shall enter judgment against the principal and sureties named in such recognizance for the sum therein mentioned, and execution may issue thereon the same as upon other judgments."
It seems plain that the judgment, in so far as can be determined by its recitals, appears to have been regularly rendered in accordance with this statute. We are to remember that it is a judgment of a court of general jurisdiction, and that the presumptions supporting its validity are to be given full force and effect in a collateral attack upon it of this nature. Our decision in State v. Warden,
The relief prayed for by the relators is denied.
TOLMAN, C.J., BRIDGES, MAIN, and ASKREN, JJ., concur. *644