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Ellis v. Bennet

Supreme Court of California
May 14, 1884
3 P. 801 (Cal. 1884)

Opinion

         Department 1.

         Appeal from the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco.

          SYLLABUS

         An appeal will be ineffectual where the notice of appeal was not signed by the attorney of record, or of counsel for appellant, or where no proof is shown of service of the notice of appeal upon the respondent.

         An order appealed from cannot be reviewed on a record which contained no copy of an undertaking on appeal, or showing that the same was filed, or that, instead thereof, a deposit in money had been made; no bill of exceptions; no showing what papers were used upon the hearing of the order to show cause upon which the order appealed from was made; and no certification of the transcript on appeal by the clerk of the court, or the attorneys in the cause. The certificates of the presiding judge and clerk, made after the service and filing of the notice of motion to dismiss the appeal, will not supply the defects in the transcript.

         M. G. Cobb and Horace G. Platt, for appellant.

         Stanly, Stonly & Hayes, for respondents.


         McKEE, J., ROSS, J.; McKINSTRY, J.

          OPINION

          McKEE, J.

         This is an attempted appeal from an order made and entered May 29, 1883, restoring respondents to possession of a tract of land from which they had been dispossessed by the sheriff by the execution of a writ of possession which had been issued upon a judgment in favor of the plaintiff (who is the appellant) against one Thomas J. Currey, for the recovery of said land and costs. In the transcript which has been filed there is a copy of the notice of appeal, which is signed by attorneys, who, as appears by the recitals in the order appealed from, were not the attorneys of record or of counsel for the appellant; and it contains no proof of service of the notice upon the respondents, or either of them. Besides, it contains no copy of an undertaking on appeal, no showing that such an undertaking was filed at any time, or that; instead thereof, a deposit in money had been made. Code Civil Proc. §§ 940, 941. Moreover, it contains no bill of exceptions, and no showing what papers were used on the hearing of the order to show cause upon which the order appealed from was made. Id. § 951. Furthermore, it is not certified by the clerk of the court, or the attorneys in the case, as required by section 953, Id. Upon such a record the order appealed from cannot be reviewed. The certificates of the presiding judge and clerk, made after the service and filing of notice of motion to dismiss the appeal, did not supply the defects in the transcript. The appeal in itself was ineffectual, because of the defective notice of appeal, and because the transcript contains no proof of its service.

         The motion to dismiss must be sustained.

         We concur: ROSS, J.; McKINSTRY, J.


Summaries of

Ellis v. Bennet

Supreme Court of California
May 14, 1884
3 P. 801 (Cal. 1884)
Case details for

Ellis v. Bennet

Case Details

Full title:ELLIS v. BENNET and others

Court:Supreme Court of California

Date published: May 14, 1884

Citations

3 P. 801 (Cal. 1884)

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