Case Name: JAMES H. CUMMINGS, Petitioner, v. CHARLES F. IRWIN (County Judge of El Dorado County), Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1870-10
Citations: 40 Cal. 354
Docket Number: 2,645
Parties: JAMES H. CUMMINGS, Petitioner, v. CHARLES F. IRWIN (County Judge of El Dorado County), Respondent.
Judges: Sprague, J., expressed no opinion».
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 40
Pages: 354–355

Head Matter:
2,645.
JAMES H. CUMMINGS, Petitioner, v. CHARLES F. IRWIN (County Judge of El Dorado County), Respondent.
Pbactioe. — New Tbiab in Counts: Coubt. —New trials may be granted by tbe County Court in cases of appeal from the judgment of a Justice of the Peace, and it is the duty of the County Judge to settle a statement or motion for a new trial which has been duly filed and presented to him for settlement.
The facts of tbe case were agreed upon and submitted to tbis Court for adjudication.
Despondent is County Judge of El Dorado County. In January, 1870, one Gibenbeim recovered judgment in a Justice’s Court in said county against petitioner, for tbe sum of one hundred and eleven dollars.
Petitioner appealed to the County Court, where judgment was rendered in favor of Gibenbeim for tbe sum of eighty dollars.
Petitioner filed and served a notice of motion for new trial in said action, and afterwards filed and served a statement on motion for new trial and moved tbe Court to settle the statement, which tbe Court refused to do, on tbe ground that it bad no power to grant a new trial.
Tbis action is brought to obtain a peremptory mandate, commanding tbe respondent to-settle tbe statement.
Geo. E. Williams, for Petitioner.
Tbe Practice Act in relation to new trials, applies to all Courts of record, (People v. Bosborough, 29 Cal. 415.)
Geo. G. Blcmcliard, for Respondent.
The County Court only bas appellate jurisdiction in tbe case. (Const. Art. VI., Sections 8 and 9,
The County Court can only exercise such appellate jurisdiction and strictly follow the statute. (2 Hittell 5,556-7; 84 Cal. 321; 10 Id. 19.)

Opinion:
Erodes, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court, Wallace, J., Ceookett, J., and Temple, J., concurring:
In a case which has been tried anew in the County Court, upon an appeal from the judgment of a Justice of the Peace, on questions of fact, or of both law and fact, a new trial may be granted by the County Court. The provisions of the Practice Act, relating to new trials in the District Courts, are applicable to new trials in the County Courts. It is therefore the duty of the County Judge to settle a statement on motion for a new trial, which has been duly filed and presented to him for settlement.
Mandate ordered.
Sprague, J., expressed no opinion».