Boling
Boling v. Alton
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Shaw, J.
The plaintiff moves to dismiss the so-called appeal on the ground that no notice of appeal has been given and that, consequently, no appeal has been taken.
Section 940 of the Code of Civil Procedure declares that “An appeal is taken by filing with the clerk of the court in which the judgment or order appealed from is entered, a notice stating the appeal from, the sarnie, or some specific part thereof, and serving a similar notice upon the adverse party or his attorney.” The defendant has not filed any notice “stating the appeal” from any judgment or order or any part thereof, or any paper purporting to be a notice of appeal under this section.
Section 941b, prescribing the only other mode of appeal, declares that any person having the right of appeal from a judgment, order, or decree “may appeal therefrom by filing with the clerk of the court in which the judgment, order or decree is rendered, a notice entitled in the cause in which said judgment, order or decree was made, which said notice shall state that the person giving the same does thereby appeal to the supreme court or district court of appeal, as the case may be, from the judgment, order or decree, or some specific part…