Mundy v. Kern

Citations

• 74 Wash. 477
• 133 P. 1035
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2081

Syllabus

<p>Justices of the Peace — Judgment—Rendition—Delay in Entry —Effect. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1770, requiring a justice of the peace to keep a docket and enter judgment when rendered, and Id., § 1859, providing that in trials hy the justice judgment shall be entered immediately after the close of the trial, and Id., § 404, defining a judgment to be the final determination of the action, a justice’s announcement of judgment for the plaintiif at the close of the trial is the rendition of judgment, and the entry being a minísteriál act, delay of ten days in making the entry is not so Unreasonable as to render the judgment void.</p> <p>Same — Judgment—Review—Appeal—Injunction. Where matters of defense in an action before a justice do, not show want of jurisdiction over the subject-matter, the remedy of a party aggrieved by • the judgment is hy appeal or review, and not injunction against enforcement of the judgment.</p>