McFarland v. West Coast Life Ins.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the judgment recorded by the clerk must conform to the judgment pronounced by the court and that “[a]ny other rule would permit the clerk to exercise a judicial function beyond his normal ministerial activity”
• “The success of a collateral attack upon a judgment generally depends on a record showing lack of jurisdiction; [citations] an attack charging want of notice and opportunity to be heard, however, may be based on evidence dehors the record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).