Powers

These six consolidated actions were instituted for the purpose of determining the status of certain employees of the city and county of San Francisco and to recover wages claimed to be due plaintiffs as such employees. Judgments were rendered in favor of the respective plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed. In doing so they elected to present the appeals on records prepared under the alternative method provided for by section 953a et seq. of the Code of Civil Procedure. Plaintiffs now move to affirm the judgments upon the grounds, first, that the several points urged for reversal have been heretofore determined adversely to defendants’ contentions in the case of Rodgers v. Board of Public Works, 208 Cal. 291 [ 281 Pac. 64 ] ; and secondly, that although the appeals were taken under the alternative method defendants have wholly failed to conform to the requirements of the statute or court rules governing such appeals in that they have not printed in their brief or in a supplement appended thereto any portion of the record relied upon by them in support of the grounds they urge for reversal. (Sec. 953c, Code Civ. Proc.; Rule VIII, Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal.)

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