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21 Ariz. 106

Peer v. O'Brien

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided December 23, 1919

Arizona Supreme Court · decided 1919-12-23

<p>1. New Trial — Statute as to Time for Motion Mandatory. — Civil Code of 1913, paragraph 590, providing that motions for new trial must be made within ten days after judgment is mandatory.</p> <p>2. New Trial — Time for Moving Where Defendant was Represented by -Counsel. — Where summons was served personally on defendant without the state, and he retained local counsel, who moved to dismiss, held, that defendant appeared by attorney of his selection, and so was bound, under Civil Code of 19-13, paragraph 590, to move for new trial within ten days, not coming within the exception of paragraph 592, allowing motion to be made within one year, where defendant is served by publication and has not appeared, etc., and hence order granting new trial on motion made more than ten days after judgment is invalid for want of jurisdiction.</p> <p>3. Appeal and Error — Dismissal of Appeal from Order Made Without Jurisdiction. — Where the trial court in excess of its jurisdiction ordered a new trial on motion filed more than ten days after judgment, appeal from the order must be dismissed.</p>

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1957

6 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“"The order appealed from having been made by the lower court without jurisdiction, this court will not review it on appeal. * * *"”

quoted by 1 later decision, including State v. Superior Court

Relies on Daggs v. Howard Sheep Co. · McLean v. Territory · Ellis v. First National Bank

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Dismissed · Decided 1919-12-23

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ROSS, J.

¶1(Concurring. )^The judgment in this case was entered in favor of appellee against appellant on November 3, 1917, and motion for new trial was served and filed October -, 1918, almost one year after rendition of judgment. Motions for new trial, in arrest of judgment, or to set aside the judgment, must be made within ten days after the rendition of the judgment. Paragraph 590, Civ. Code; Daggs v. Howard Sheep Co., 16 Ariz. 283, 145 Pac. 140. However, appellant would avoid the ten-day limit of paragraph 590 by asserting that he, under the facts, is given the right to move for a new trial at any time within one year after the rendition of judgment. He claims he comes within the terms of paragraph 592, Civil Code, which states that a new trial may be granted a defendant within one year after rendition of judgment, if he has been served by publication and has not appeared in person or by attorney of his selection. Appellant, in his affidavit of *110good cause attached to his motion for new trial, states:

“That the summons and complaint in said action were served upon me personally at said city of Los Angeles, on the 15th day of August, 1917; that immediately after said service I retained Carl G. Krook, Esq., of Kingman, Arizona, as my attorney in said action.”

¶2On October 10, 1917, the appellant wired his said attorney from Los Angeles as follows:

“Unless your judgment otherwise, perhaps best let matter rest on motion to dismiss as possibly plaintiff may not commence new action.”

¶3An - order dated October 13, 1917, signed by the presiding judge, recites that “upon motion of Carl G. Krook, attorney for defendant in said action, it is ordered,” etc. It is therefore shown as a fact that before November 3, 1917, the date of entry of judgment, appellant had appeared in this action by an attorney of his own selection. Appellant, having entered his appearance in the case before judgment was rendered, is, by the very terms of paragraph 592, supra, denied the right to a new trial thereunder. If he was desirous of a new trial, he should have moved for it within ten days after the judgment was rendered as provided in paragraph 590. The court was therefore without jurisdiction to sustain his motion for a new trial when made eleven months after judgment, and the provisional order" granting the new trial upon said motion was void. The provision of paragraph 590 requiring the motion to be made within ten days after the rendition of judgment is mandatory. Ellis v. First Nat. Bank of Globe, 19 Ariz. 464, 172 Pac. 281.

¶4The order appealed from having been made by the lower court without jurisdiction, this court will not review it on appeal. Lockwood v. Lockwood, 19 *111Ariz. 215, 168 Pac. 501; McLean v. Territory, 8 Ariz. 195, 71 Pac. 926.

¶5I concur in the order of dismissal.

¶6BAKEB, J., concurs in Judge BOSS’ opinion.

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