Freeman

Freeman v. Brown

Good Law
1907 Cal. App. LEXIS 289·5 Cal. App. 516·90 P. 970
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 11, 1907Civ. No. 291.California529 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Allen, J.

Appeal from an order denying the defendant’s application for leave to amend proposed statement on motion for a new trial.

Upon the trial of the action in the court below- judgment was entered against defendant, and in due time he served his notice of intention to move for a new trial and served and filed his proposed statement on such motion, which statement omitted to specify the particulars wherein the evidence was insufficient to justify the findings, and wherein the decision and judgment was against law, and the errors in law occurring at the trial and excepted to by the defendant. When the settlement of the statement came on for hearing defendant asked leave to amend the proposed statement by filing a supplemental statement setting forth the omissions hereinbefore referred to. This application was supported by an affidavit of one of the attorneys, “that by reason of an oversight and through press of business affiant omitted to specify in the proposed statement the particulars wherein the evidence was insufficient to justify the findings, wherein the decision and judgment was against law,, and the errors in law occurring at the trial and excepted to by defendant; that said…

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