# Williams v. Williams

> California Supreme Court · October 31, 1950 · 36 Cal. 2d 289

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9540538

## Case

- **Full name:** Estate of EDITOR WILLIAMS, Deceased. SEBASTIAN WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. OCTAVIA WILLIAMS, Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** October 31, 1950
- **Citations:** 36 Cal. 2d 289; 223 P.2d 248; 22 A.L.R. 2d 716; 1950 Cal. LEXIS 239
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Schauer
- **Judges:** Edmonds, Schauer
- **Cited by:** 63 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting prior case in which default judgment was preclusive of issues raised in complaint where court granting default judgment found that “ ‘all the allegations of the complaint are true, and that they are sustained by testimony free from all legal exceptions’ ” (quoting Maxwe…
- stating that the defaulting defendant must learn of the litigation before entry of the default judgment

## Opinion text

SCHAUER, J.
I concur in the judgment. This decision apparently accepts and follows, sub sílentio, the views expressed in the concurring opinion in De Young v. De Young (1946), 27 Cal.2d 521 , 527 et seq. [ 165 P.2d 457 ], .

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