Case Name: THOMAS S. BRIGHAM, Appellant, v. GRANVILLE P. SWIFT, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1856-09-22
Citations: 1 Cal. Unrep. 31
Docket Number: No. 1074
Parties: THOMAS S. BRIGHAM, Appellant, v. GRANVILLE P. SWIFT, Respondent.
Judges: I concur: Terry, J.
Reporter: California Unreported Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 31–32

Head Matter:
THOMAS S. BRIGHAM, Appellant, v. GRANVILLE P. SWIFT, Respondent.
No. 1074;
September 22, 1856.
Appeal — Denial of Motion — Matter Beyond Jurisdiction. — An order denying a motion, made too late for the court to have jurisdiction of it, cannot be inquired into upon appeal from an order involving the same subject matter.
APPEAL from Sixth Judicial District, Sacramento County.
Long, Judah & Dunlap for Appellant; Harmon, Sunder-land & Stanley for respondent.

Opinion:
MURRAY, C. J.
— This is an appeal from an order refusing a motion to retax costs. The cost bill was filed on the 10th of February, 1855, and the motion to relax was made on the 22d of February, 1856. By a rule of the court below the party is allowed ten days from the filing of the bill in which to move to retax. The motion in this case was neither made in ten days, nor a year and ten days, and when made the court had lost all jurisdiction over the subject. The error, if any, should have been corrected by appeal before the expiration of the time allowed by law for bringing cases before us. This cannot now be done by an appeal from an order of the court below involving the same subject matter.
Judgment affirmed.
I concur: Terry, J.