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2 Cal. 106

Lightstone v. Laurencel

California Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1852

California Supreme Court · decided 1852-01-15

A notice by the respondent, dated September 5th, 1851, that the cause would be brought to hearing in this Court “at the next term, to be holden at, &c., on the first Monday of October next, at ten o’clock, A. M., or as soon thereafter as the same can be reached on the calendar,” was served on the attorneys for the appellants in the Court below, on the 10th of October, 1851.

Decided 1852-01-15

Justice Heydenfeeldt

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court. This

¶2is a motion of the appellant to set aside the affirmance of judgment made at the last term, and restore the cause to the calendar, on the ground that he had no notice of trial, as was required by the rules of Court then in existence. He also files his affidavit, declaring that he had no actual notice.

¶3We have before decided that we would not disturb a decision for the want of a formal statutory notice, where it appeared clearly that the party had actual notice. In this case, the papers disclose that the appellant did not have the notice required by the rules; the affirmance was for default of his appearance; and *107it is nowhere shewn that he had actual notice. Besides, his affidavit is additional weight to satisfy us that he had not.

¶4The judgment of affirmance must he set aside; and the cause restored to the calendar.

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