Case Name: THOMAS H. HEERMANR v. E. H. SAWYER and ISAIAH HANSCOM
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1874
Citations: 48 Cal. 562
Docket Number: No. 4,104
Parties: THOMAS H. HEERMANR v. E. H. SAWYER and ISAIAH HANSCOM.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 48
Pages: 562–563

Head Matter:
[No. 4,104.]
THOMAS H. HEERMANR v. E. H. SAWYER and ISAIAH HANSCOM.
Setting Aside a Default.—An order setting aside a default and judgment must prescribe the payment of the previous costs, as a condition precedent.
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendants by default. They moved to set aside the default, and the Court made an order setting it aside, but the order did not prescribe the payment of costs as a condition. The plaintiff appealed.
McElrath & Osment and Alex. Campbell, Sr., for the Appellant.
A. Campbell, for the Respondents.

Opinion:
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The order setting aside the default and judgment is erroneous for the reason that payment of previous costs is not imposed upon the defendant as a condition of setting aside the judgment. The four hundred and seventy-third section of the Code of Civil Procedure (which, in this respect, is a copy of the sixty-eighth section • of the former Practice Act,) provides that a default may be relieved against "upon such terms as may be just, and upon payment of costs;" and it has always been held here that the irnposi tion of costs upon the moving party was indispensible to the validity of the order opening the default. (People v. O'Connell, 23 Cal. 281; How v. Independence Co. 29 Id. 72; Bailey v. Taafe, Id. 422.) This view renders it unnecessary to consider the points presented by counsel. On the return of the case the Court below can, of course, rehear the application upon the moving papers, and upon such other and further showing as it may permit to be made.
Order reversed.