Mazade v. Justice's Court of Goldfield Township
Mazade v. Justice's Court of Goldfield Township
Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
An action was commenced in the justice court of Goldfield township in which one M. C. Peterman was plaintiff and Louis Mazade was defendant. Judgment was entered against defendant in that court and he sued out a writ of certiorari in the district court. The proceedings in the district court were all had under the entitlement, “Louis Mazade v. Justice’s Court of Goldfield Township, in the County of Esmeralda, State of Nevada, and Marvin Arnold, Justice of the Peace of said Justice’s Court.”
In the district court the writ of certiorari.was dismissed. On motion for new trial, the court adhered to its former ruling. Petitioner in the district court, who was defendant in the justice court, has attempted to appeal to this court from the ruling and order of the district court. A motion to dismiss the appeal is earnestly prosecuted here, and we regard at least one point raised as conclusive.
Section 5325, Revised Laws, provides:
“A judgment dr order in a civil action, except when expressly made final by this act, may be reviewed as prescribed by this title, and not otherwise.”
Section 5330, Revised Laws, provides:
“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 same or some specific part thereof, and within three days thereafter serving a similiar notice or copy thereof on the adverse party or his attorney. * * * The order of service is immaterial, but the appeal is ineffectual for any purpose unless within five days after service of the notice of appeal an undertaking be filed, or a deposit of money be made with the clerk, as hereinafter provided, or the undertaking be waived by the adverse party in writing.”
“No appeal shall be dismissed for insufficiency of the notice of appeal or undertaking thereon; provided, that a good and sufficient undertaking approved by the justices of the supreme court, or.a majority thereof, be filed in the supreme court before the hearing upon motion to dismiss the appeal; provided, that the respondent shall not be delayed, but may move, when the cause is regularly called, for the disposition of the same, if such undertaking be not given,” etc.
The instrument styled “Amended Bond on Appeal,” and purporting to be in the case of Mazade v. Justice’s Court, has never been approved by the justices of this
We may repeat our assertion as set forth in Shute v. Big Meadow Investment Co., 41 Nev. 361, 170 Pac. 1049:
“By the terms of the statute the approval by the court is made indispensable to the efficacy of the undertaking.”
Here, as in that case, the instrument styled “Amended Bond on Appeal” is without force or effect so far as this appeal is concerned.
The motion to dismiss might prevail on other grounds; for instance, the notice of appeal is entitled in the case of “M. C. Peterman v. Louis Mazade,” and is addressed, “To the Plaintiff, M. C. Peterman, Above Named, and to His Attorney, M. A. Diskin.” This notice of appeal, signed by the attorney for the petitioner in the cer-tiorari proceedings, declares:
“That the defendant in the above-entitled action hereby appeals to the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada from the judgment herein entered,” etc.
No judgment was entered by the district court in the case of “M. C. Peterman v. Louis Mazade,” because no such case was before the court for the entry of judgment. The only matter in the district court was a proceeding in certiorari by “Louis Mazade v. Justice’s Court of Goldfield Township and the Justice Thereof.”
It is unnecessary for us to dwell on the effect of such a notice. We deem it sufficient to conclude the matter on the sufficiency of the undertaking, which is fatal. (Shute v. Big Meadow Investment Co., supra.)
For the foregoing reasons, it is ordered that the appeal be dismissed.
Reference
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- LOUIS MAZADE v. JUSTICE'S COURT OF GOLDFIELD TOWNSHIP, and MARVIN ARNOLD, Justice of the Peace Thereof
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