Turner

Turner v. Reynolds

Good Law
1889 Cal. LEXIS 1017·81 Cal. 214·22 P. 546
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 19, 1889No. 12151California745 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Belcher, J.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial. The judgment was rendered on the fourteenth day of June, 1886; the order denying *215 a new trial was entered on the second day of December, 1886, and the notice of appeal was served and filed on the tenth day of February, 1887.

On an appeal from a final judgment an exception to the decision or verdict, on the ground that it is not supported by the evidence, cannot be reviewed, unless the appeal is taken within sixty days after the rendition of the judgment. And an appeal from an order denying a new trial can only be taken within sixty days after the order is entered. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 939.)

As the appeal in this case was taken more than sixty days after the rendition of the judgment, and after the order refusing a new trial was entered, the principal point urged by counsel for appellant, viz., that the findings of the court were not justified by the evidence, cannot be considered.

The other points, arising upon the judgment roll, are, that the court failed to find upon two material issues, and that it erred in allowing the plaintiff forty dollars…

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