Masten

Masten v. Fox West Coast Theatres

Bad Law
118 Cal. App. 236·1931 Cal. App. LEXIS 244·5 P.2d 54
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 7, 1931Docket No. 882.California573 words

Opinion

Dissenting Opinion

Marks, J.

I dissent. I cannot agtee with my associates in their conclusions which resulted in dismissal of the order to show cause in this case.

The decision of this court was filed on October 1, 1931. A petition for rehearing was filed on October 21, 1931, and was denied on October 23, 1931. Subsequently, and before the expiration of thirty days from the filing of the decision, it was called to our attention that no service of the petition for rehearing had been made upon the attorney for appel lant. This court thereupon issued an order to show cause requiring respondents to show cause why the petition for rehearing should not be stricken from the records of this court, and why the order denying a rehearing should not be vacated.

The order was made returnable on November 4, 1931, at which time it was stipulated that counsel for respondents, petitioners for the rehearing, had delegated the service of the petition to the printers who had printed it; that service was made upon Edward J. Kelley, an attorney at law with offices in the city of Los Angeles, instead of upon Edward J. Kelley, an attorney at law with offices in the city of San Diego, who was the only Edward J. Kelley, attorney of…

Lead Opinion

An order having been issued in the above-entitled cause requiring the respondents herein to appear and show cause why their petition for rehearing should not be stricken from the files and the order denying said petition set aside, and cause having been duly shown in response thereto, and the matter submitted to the court, it is hereby ordered that the said order to show cause be discharged and the proceeding dismissed.

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