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88 Cal. App. 2d 526

Arnold v. Howell

California Court of Appeal

Decided November 16, 1948

California Court of Appeal · decided 1948-11-16

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1950

1 state decisions

Relies on Bryant v. Kelly

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Decided 1948-11-16

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THE COURT.

¶1Appellant sued to set aside an order for the adoption of his daughter by respondent Alethea Anne Howell (a maternal aunt of the child) and Harry Edward Howell, her husband.

¶2A general and special demurrer to the first amended complaint by the respondents Edith M. Williams, Harry Edward Howell and Alethea Anne Howell was sustained without leave to amend. Respondent State Department of Social Welfare did not demur, but filed an answer.

¶3No judgment was entered in the case.

¶4Within 60 days after the order had been made sustaining the demurrer, appellant filed a notice of appeal “from the order . . . sustaining the demurrer to the First Amended Complaint without leave to amend and from the whole thereof. ’ ’

¶5An order sustaining a demurrer is not within the cases enumerated by section 963, Code of Civil Procedure, and, therefore, is not appealable. (Bryant v. Kelly, 203 Cal. 721 [265 P. 817] ; 2 Cal.Jur. pp. 156-157, and 1 Cal.Jur. 10-yr. Supp. p. 290; 2 McKinney’s Digest, “Appeal and Error,” § 40, pp. 141-142.) The ruling is reviewable on appeal from the judgment itself. (2 Cal.Jur. p. 157.)

¶6Accordingly the appeal must be dismissed and it is so ordered.

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