Case ID: or_114/html/0543-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McBRIDE, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted on motion to dismiss appeal May 12,
    appeal dismissed May 19, 1925.
    WM. CROWTHER v. C. R. JONES.
    (236 Pac. 267.)
    Appeal and Error — Appeal Dismissed, Where Notice not Complying With Statute.
    1. Appeal would be dismissed, where court could not from transcript identify judgment, and notice of appeal did not state name of court to which appeal was taken as required by Section 550, Or. L., and undertaking was as indefinite as notice.
    Evidence — Court Judicially Emows That There are Several Departments of Circuit Court for Multnomah County.
    2. Court judicially knows that there are several departments of the Circuit Court of Oregon for Multnomah County.
    See (1) 3 C. J. 1225, 1226. (2) 23 C. J. 104.
    1. See 2 R. C. L. 108, 151.
    From Multnomah: Walter H. Evans, Judge.
    In Banc.
    The defendant, being dissatisfied with the judgment of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County, filed and served upon the plaintiff a notice of appeal, which said notice is as follows:
    
      “In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, in and for Multnomah County.
    “William Crowther, Plaintiff, vs. “C. E. Jones, Defendant.
    “Notice of Appeal.
    “To William Crowther and W. P. Lord and Arthur I. Moulton, Attorneys for Plaintiff:
    “You and each of you, are hereby notified that C. E. Jones, the defendant above named, hereby appeals from a certain Judgment Order wherein and whereby plaintiff recovered of and from the defendant the sum of Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) tog-ether with costs and disbursements taxed at $54.65, the same being entered and rendered on October 11, 1924, in favor of the above-named plaintiff and against the above-named defendant.
    “Dated this fifth day of December, 1924.
    “E. L. McDougal, “Attorney for Defendant.”
    The plaintiff moved to dismiss on the ground that the notice of appeal was too uncertain to be sufficient under the statute.
    Appeal Dismissed.
    For the motion, Messrs. Lord & Moulton.
    
    
      Contra, Mr. E. L. McDougal.
    
   McBRIDE, C. J.

It is provided in Section 550, Or. L., among other things, that—

“Such notice shall be sufficient if it contains the title of the cause, the names of the parties and notifies the adverse party, or his attorney that an appeal is taken to the supreme or circuit court, as the case may be, from the judgment, order or decree, or some specified part thereof.”

We take judicial notice of the fact that there are several departments of the Circuit Court of Oregon for Multnomah County, aud we cannot, from an examination of the transcript here, identify the judgment. Neither does it comply with the statute, which requires a notice to state the name of the court to which the appeal is taken: Lecher v. St. Johns, 74 Or. 558 (146 Pac. 87).

In several cases we have held that the judgment may be identified by reference to the undertaking. The undertaking in this case is worse than the notice itself. It is not entitled in any court or any department of any court in Multnomah County, but is entitled in the Circuit Court in and for Columbia County. It is otherwise quite as indefinite as the notice. The notice is insufficient and the appeal is dismissed. Appeal Dismissed.