Gardiner

Gardiner v. California Guarantee Investment Co.

Good Law
129 Cal. 528·1900 Cal. LEXIS 1017·62 P. 110
Supreme Court of CaliforniaAugust 20, 1900S.F. No. 2041.California587 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Harrison, J.

Motion to dismiss the appeals. The appeals herein were taken June 24, 1899, and purport to he from a judgment dismissing the action, and also from an order made after judgment. The transcript on appeal was filed August 5, 1899. March 8, 1900, the respondent gave notice of the present motion to dismiss the appeals upon the ground that no sufficient undertaking on appeal had been filed. As there are two distinct appeals and only a single undertaking in the sum of three hundred dollars, the undertaking is defective within the rule given in Centerville Co. v. Bachtold, 109 Cal. 111, and many other eases. The motion is, however, resisted hy the appellant upon the ground that the defect has been waived by the conduct of the respondent. The facts upon which he relies as constituting such waiver are that after the transcript had been filed, viz., September 5, 1899, the respondent joined with the appellant in a written stipulation by which each party was to be allowed additional time within which to prepare and file his points and authorities on the appeal, and that the respondent again, on January, 30, 1900, stipulated that the time for the appellant to file his points and authorities…

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