Alexander v. Municipal Court of Appeals
Alexander v. Municipal Court of Appeals
Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a judgment in proceedings on a writ of review, affirming an order made by the late municipal court of appeals of the city and county of San Francisco, dismissing an appeal, and from an order setting aside an order granting a rehearing. The order dismissing the appeal was made by the municipal court of appeals in a ease pending before it, on an appeal taken from the judgment of a justice’s court on questions of both law and fact. While the case was there pending the parties stipulated in writing that it be placed on the calendar of the court for trial, and that was done; but on the calling of the ease in its order on the calendar for trial, the appellant did not appear, and the court, upon motion of respondent, ordered that the appeal be dismissed for want of prosecution. That order was made and entered without proof of service of notice of the motion upon the appellant; and it is contended that the court exceeded its jurisdiction in making the order without proof of such service.
The contention is founded upon section 980, Code of Civil Procedure. That section, as it existed at the time of the proceedings which are called in question, provided: “Upon an appeal heard upon a statement of the case, the county court may review all orders affecting the judgment appealed from, and may set aside or confirm or modify any or all of the proceedings subsequent to and dependent upon such judgment, and may, if necessary or proper, order a new trial. When the action is tried anew, on appeal, the trial must be conducted, in all respects, as trials in the district court. The provisions of this code as to changing the place of trial, and all the provisions as to trials in the district court, are applicable to trials on appeal in the county court. For a failure to prosecute an appeal, or unnecessary delay in bringing it to a hearing, the county court, after notice, may order the appeal to be dismissed,” etc.
These provisions regulated the practice of the court in (1) cases where appeals were taken on questions of law alone;
There is no such thing as a rehearing after judgment on a writ of review. The case is heard upon the return made to the writ; and the only question upon the return is whether the court, whose judgment or order is the subject matter of review, pursued its jurisdiction: Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1074. The judgment rendered on that question is reviewable only on appeal. Judgment and order affirmed.
We concur: Ross, J.; McKinstry, J.
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