In Re Estate of Turner

[86]

LORIGAN, J.

This is a motion to dismiss an appeal. On May 8, 1901, W. W. Gray was, and for many years had been, administrator of the above estate. The appellant on that day filed a petition to be appointed administrator. This Gray contested, and on March 10,1902, the superior court of Merced County, in which said estate was being administered, made and entered on its minutes an order denying appellant’s petition.

On April 12, 1902, Gray died, and on the 25th of the same month appellant filed a notice of appeal from said order denying' his petition, which on the same day he served on J. P. Peek, who had acted as attorney for Gray in the proceeding.

On October 8, 1902, appellant had the éxeeutors of the will of Gray and the administratrix of Turner’s estate substituted as contestants in place of Gray, and on the same day filed another notice of appeal from said order, and served it and the notice of appeal of April 25,1902, on their attorneys.

This motion is based on the ground that no service of the notice of appeal was made either according to law or within the statutory time. We think the motion should be granted.

The service of the notice of appeal on Peek, the attorney who had represented Gray as contestant, after the latter’s death, was ineffectual for any purpose. His authority as attorney ceased at the death of his client.

(Moyle

v.

Landers,

78 Cal. 100;

1

Pedlar

v.

Stroud,

116 Cal. 462.)

Neither can the service on October 8, 1902, on the substituted respondents, of the notice of appeal of April 25, 1902, avail appellant. It was made long after the right of appeal had been exercised through filing the notice, and months after the time within which he could appeal had expired.