ZEPKE v. SONOMA COUNTY ETC. INS. CO., 18 Cal.App.2d 754 (1937)


64 P.2d 1002

GUSTAV ZEPKE et al., Respondents, v. THE SONOMA COUNTY FARMERS’ MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant.

Docket No. 5816.Court of Appeal of California, Third District.
January 28, 1937.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sonoma County. Donald Geary, Judge. Appeal dismissed on motion.

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

H.W.A. Weske and J.N. DeMeo for Appellant.

L.G. Hitchcock for Respondent.

THE COURT.

This cause is before us upon a motion to dismiss the appeal, for the reason that the notice of appeal was not filed within the statutory time provided by section 939 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

[1] The record before us shows that a motion for new trial was denied by operation on the 16th day of November, 1936; that the notice of appeal was not filed in the above-entitled cause until the 19th day of December, 1936, three days too late to give this court jurisdiction.

The appellant relies upon section 953-A of the Code of Civil Procedure. We find nothing in that section, however, which relieves the appellant from default herein.

Under the decision in the case of Kocher v. Fidelity Deposit Co., 137 Cal.App. 476 [30 P.2d 535], and the cases therein cited, it follows that the motion to dismiss the appeal must be granted. And it is so ordered.

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