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117 Cal. 228

McHugh v. Adkins

California Supreme Court

Decided June 9, 1897

California Supreme Court · decided 1897-06-09

Motion in the Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

Relies on Home for the Care of Inebriates v. Kaplan

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Decided 1897-06-09

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1954

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The Court.

¶1Motion to dismiss the appeal.

¶2The findings of fact and conclusions of law made upon the trial of the above action were filed with the clerk May 1, 1897, and judgment ordered in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants and intervenor. On the same day the defendants and intervenor filed notices of appeal from this judgment, and also perfected their appeals. Judgment was not entered of record until May 3d. A motion is now made by the plaintiff to dismiss the appeal, upon the ground that it was taken prematurely.

¶3At the time this notice of appeal was given, section 939 of the Code of Civil Procedure provided that an appeal from a judgment might be taken within one year “after the entry of judgment,” and it has been repeatedly held that an appeal taken before the judgment is entered of record, is premature, and must be dismissed. (Home for Inebriates v. Kaplan, 84 Cal. 488, *229and cases there cited.) The further provision in the same section, that “ an exception to the decision or verdict on the ground that it is not supported by the evidence, cannot be reviewed on an appeal from the judgment, unless the appeal is taken within sixty days after the rendition of the judgment,” does not change the time within which the appeal must be taken, but is a limitation upon the matters that may be considered on the appeal. This court has no jurisdiction of an appeal from a judgment taken before the judgment has been entered of record, and, while it may review any errors of law committed at the trial, when the appeal has been properly taken, its jurisdiction to review the evidence is limited to such appeals as are taken within sixty days after the rendition of the judgment.

¶4The appeals are dismissed.

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