Esrey

Esrey v. Southern Pacific Co.

Good Law
4 Cal. Unrep. 402·35 P. 310
Supreme Court of CaliforniaDecember 29, 1893No. 15,440California396 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Motion to dismiss the appeals. Judgment was rendered in this case in favor of the plaintiff February 8, 1892, and an order denying the defendant’s motion for new trial was made and entered May 24, 1893. The defendant appealed from the judgment February 1, 1893, and from the order denying a new trial August 14, 1893. The plaintiff now moves to dismiss the appeal from the order denying a new trial, upon the ground that it was not taken within sixty days after the entry of the order.

The right of a litigant to have the action of the lower court reviewed by this court upon an appeal therefrom depends upon a compliance by him with the statutory requirements for taking an- appeal. Section 939, Code of Civil Procedure, limits the time for taking an appeal from an order granting or refusing a new trial to sixty d/ays after the order is made and entered in the minutes of the court, and, unless taken within that time, this court has no jurisdiction to hear the appeal. The appeal from the order denying a new trial, not *403 having been taken within sixty days after the entry of the order, must therefore be dismissed.

The plaintiff has also moved to dismiss the appeal from the judgment upon…

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