Hollywood Cleaning & Pressing Co. v. Hollywood Laundry Service, Inc.

Respondent moves to affirm the judgment upon the ground that appellant’s brief does not comply with the provisions of section 953c of the Code of Civil Procedure, and does not comply with the requirements of rule VIII governing such appeals, and upon the further ground that the appeal is not meritorious, was not taken in good faith and has not been prosecuted with reasonable diligence.

We are satisfied that the appeal is meritorious in the sense that it presents questions which merit consideration, and that the appeal has been taken in good faith and has been prosecuted with reasonable diligence.

The principal basis of the motion is that in filing its brief appellant has not printed in the brief, or in any supplement appended thereto, a sufficient portion of the record to properly present to the court the merits of the appeal in relation to the points upon which appellant relies. The gist of the argument, on the part of the moving party, is that the points on appeal are substantially confined to questions relating to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the findings; that, although there are many hundreds of pages of evidence relating to those questions, appellant in his…