Genella v. Relyea

By the Court, Sawyer, J.: The Court announced its judgment, and the order for judgment was entered in the minutes of the Court on the 15th of August, 1865. The judgment was therefore rendered, and the time for taking an appeal commenced to run on that day. (Gray v. Palmer, 28 Cal. 416 ; Peck v. Courtis, 31 Cal. 207.) But the judgment was actually drawn up in the form in which [160]it was designed to be entered, signed by the Judge, and filed by the Clerk on the 9th of September, 1865, and nothing remained to be done except the mere ministerial duty, to be performed by the Clerk, of copying it into the Judgment Book. (Casement v. Ringgold, 28 Cal. 337.) The notice of appeal from this judgment was filed and served on the 11th of September, 1866. Whether we regard the 15th of August, or the 9th of September, 1865, as the date of the rendition of the judgment is, therefore, a matter of no consequence: for, in either case, more than a year had elapsed before the appeal was taken, and the time for taking an appeal from the judgment had expired.

As to that portion of the appeal “ from all orders of the District Court, made and entered in the said two actions jointly and severally, either before or after judgment,” the notice of appeal is too general. It points out no particular order, and is insufficient. But if, as supposed by respondent, the intention was to appeal from the orders of December 26th, 1865, striking out statement on motion for new trial, and refusing motion to certify statement, more than sixty days had elapsed after the entry of the orders before the service of notice of appeal, and the appeal was not in time. Besides, no appeal lies from those orders. (Prac. Act, Sections 336 and 347 ; Leffingwell v. Griffing, 29 Cal. 193 ; Ketchum v. Crippen, 31 Cal. 365.) The appeal was not in time and must be dismissed, and it is so ordered.

Mr. Justice Shaeter, being disqualified, did not sit in this case.