115 P. 464 | Cal. | 1911
This is an appeal by defendant from an order made under the provisions of section 685 of the Code of Civil Procedure to enforce a judgment by the issuance of an execution for a deficiency remaining after sale under a previous execution similarly obtained. A brief history of the many phases of this protracted litigation may be found in the opinion in Weldon v.Rogers,
Appellant contends that the court exhausted its jurisdiction to order execution under the authority conferred by section 685 of the Code of Civil Procedure when it acted in 1905 granting respondent's previous motion; and that, even conceding the court's right to make another order like the one now before us, there was an abuse of discretion in the present instance. Upon the first point of controversy we think that the statute itself is a complete answer to appellant's objection. The authority granted is very broad. Under it the court may even grant the prayer for a writ of execution when an independent action on the judgment itself would be barred by the statute of limitations.(Doehla v. Phillips,
Appellant's other point raises this question: Has the court in the exercise of its discretion to grant or to refuse the order contemplated by section 685 of the Code of Civil Procedure the right to consider the facts appearing at the trial of the case or any of the circumstances leading up to the judgment? We think this question must be answered in the negative. Any other answer would give to a superior court a power to review and to determine the correctness or propriety of one of its own judgments of long standing which no appellate *702
tribunal possesses. We think it clear that the court's "discretion" mentioned in such cases as Wheeler v. Eldred,
Therefore, the order from which this appeal is taken is affirmed.
Henshaw, J., and Lorigan, J., concurred.