Case Name: JAMES S. McCUE, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF MARIN COUNTY, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1887-01-14
Citations: 71 Cal. 545
Docket Number: No. 11802
Parties: JAMES S. McCUE, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF MARIN COUNTY, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 545–545

Head Matter:
[No. 11802.
In Bank.
January 14, 1887.]
JAMES S. McCUE, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF MARIN COUNTY, Respondent.
Certiorari—Appealable Judgment or Order cannot be Reviewed on. —A writ of certiorari will not lie to review an appealable judgment or order either before or after the expiration of the time limited by law for appealing therefrom.
Application for a writ of certiorari to review an order' of the Superior Court of Marin County modifying a judgment which had theretofore been rendered in favor of the petitioner in a certain action entitled McCue v. Tunstead. At the date of the application for the writ, the time limited by law for appealing from the order had expired.
James S. McCue, in pro per., for Petitioner.
Joseph Kirk, for Respondent.

Opinion:
The Court.
The writ must be dismissed. The writ will not lie where there is an appeal, and if there is an appeal, but the time for taking it has elapsed, the writ . will not lie. (In re Stuttmeister, ante, p. 322; Miliken v. Huber, 21 Cal. 166; Bennett v. Wallace, 43 Cal. 25.)
Writ dismissed.
McFarland, J., concurring.
I concur in the judgment; but in my opinion there might be a case where, on account of unusual circumstances, a writ of review' would lie although there had been, at one time, a right of appeal, — as intimated in Kimple v. Superior Court of San Francisco, 55 Cal. 136.