Ellis v. Bennet

McKEE, J. This is an attempted appeal from an order made and entered May 29, 1883, restoring respondents to possession of a tract of land from which they had been dispossessed by the sheriff by the execution of a writ of possession which had been issued upon a judgment in favor of the plaintiff (who is the appellant) against one Thomas J. Currey, for the recovery of said land and costs. In the transcript which has been filed" there is a copy of the notice of appeal, which is signed by. attorneys, who, as appears by the recitals in the order appealed from, were not the attorneys of record or of counsel for the appellant; and it contains no proof of service of the notice upon the respondents, or either of them. Besides, it contains no copy of an undertaking on appeal, no [303] showing that such an undertaking was filed- at any time, or that, instead thereof, a deposit in money had been made: Code Civ. Proc., secs. 940, 941. Moreover, it contains no bill of exceptions, and no showing what papers were used on the hearing of the order to show cause upon which the order appealed from was made: Code Civ. Proc., see. 951. Furthermore, it is not certified by the clerk of the court or the attorneys in the case, as required by section 953, Code of Civil Procedure. Upon such a record the order appealed from cannot be reviewed. The certificates of the presiding judge and clerk, made after the service and filing of notice of motion to dismiss the appeal, did not supply the defects in the transcript. The appeal in itself was ineffectual, because of the defective notice of appeal and because the transcript contains no proof of its service. The motion to dismiss must be sustained. We concur: Ross, J.; McKinstry, J.