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Hamilton v. Carpenter

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two
Jun 2, 1942
52 Cal.App.2d 449 (Cal. Ct. App. 1942)

Opinion

Docket No. 13474.

June 2, 1942.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County refusing to strike an affidavit. Frank G. Swain, Judge. Appeal dismissed on motion.

Roy A. Linn for Appellants.

Meserve, Mumper Hughes, Roy L. Herndon and Lewis T. Gardiner for Respondent.


Defendants attempt to appeal from an order denying a motion to strike an affidavit filed by plaintiff in opposition to defendants' motion to set aside a sale of real property pursuant to a decree foreclosing a deed of trust.

[1] This is the sole question for our determination:

Is a ruling upon the admissibility of evidence which is to be used in determining a motion to set aside a sale of real property pursuant to a decree of foreclosure of a deed of trust an appealable order under the terms of section 963, subdivision 2, of the Code of Civil Procedure?

This question must be answered in the negative. The law is established in California that a ruling either admitting or rejecting evidence to be used in connection with a special proceeding after a final judgment is not a "special order made after final judgment" within the meaning of section 963, subdivision 2, of the Code of Civil Procedure. ( Watson v. Pryor, 49 Cal.App. 554, 557 [ 193 P. 797].)

Therefore, since in the present case the order from which defendants attempt to appeal was merely a ruling upon the admissibility of evidence, such ruling was a nonappealable order and the purported appeal should be and it is hereby dismissed.

Moore, P.J., and Wood (W.J.), J., concurred.


Summaries of

Hamilton v. Carpenter

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two
Jun 2, 1942
52 Cal.App.2d 449 (Cal. Ct. App. 1942)
Case details for

Hamilton v. Carpenter

Case Details

Full title:ARCHIBALD J. HAMILTON, Respondent, v. MARGARET B. CARPENTER et al.…

Court:Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two

Date published: Jun 2, 1942

Citations

52 Cal.App.2d 449 (Cal. Ct. App. 1942)
126 P.2d 397

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