Court Opinion

ID: 9749093
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:23:57.962649+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:43.931404
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DAVIS, J., Concurring.
The instant appeal of the newly entered default judgment is a direct attack on that judgment; not, as the majority contend, the equivalent of an appeal of the successful collateral attack on the first default judgment.
There are two separate appeals here. One is indeed from the judgment vacating the original default judgment. Independent of this successful collateral attack (which defendants prevailed on and thus have no basis for *1158complaint) is the other appeal from the new default judgment entered after the previous one was vacated. There is nothing collateral about the latter appeal. It is a direct attack on the legality of the new default judgment.
I concur with the result reached by the majority because the issue of whether plaintiff failed to state a cause of action could have been, but was not, raised by defendants during their appeal of the original default judgment. Palpar, Inc. v. Thayer (1953) 115 Cal.App.2d 333, 338 [252 P.2d 51] is dispositive. There a complaint in intervention involving property interests in a tractor was the basis for a trial judgment that was reversed on appeal. Following retrial, a second appeal was taken and the appellant argued the cross-complainant was required to allege the “nature and extent” of the security at issue. The court held “[t]he case has been twice tried on this complaint in intervention, on the first appeal this technical objection to the pleading was not raised, and this court sent the case back for a retrial on the pleadings as framed. . . . We do not hesitate to hold that appellant’s present attack on this allegation of the cross-complaint comes too late.” (See also Nevarov v. Nevarov (1955) 133 Cal.App.2d 457, 460-461 [284 P.2d 17].)
A petition for a rehearing was denied July 10, 1998, and appellants’ petition for review by the Supreme Court was denied September 2, 1998.