Case Name: WILLIAM F. McDERMOTT, Appellant, v. GEORGE B. DOUGLASS, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1855
Citations: 5 Cal. 89
Docket Number: 
Parties: WILLIAM F. McDERMOTT, Appellant, v. GEORGE B. DOUGLASS, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 89–89

Head Matter:
WILLIAM F. McDERMOTT, Appellant, v. GEORGE B. DOUGLASS, Respondent.
One of the conditions upon which an appeal is allowed" from Justice’s Courts, is the payment of the costs of the motion.
Appeal from the County Court of the County of San Joaquin.
The action was a petition for a mandamus to compel the defendant, a Justice of the Peace, to certify an appeal taken from a judgment rendered by him against the plaintiff, and to stay execution thereupon.
The defendant requested the Court to frame the following issue for submission to the jury—“ Did the plaintiff, within thirty days from the rendition of judgment against him by said Justice, tender to said Justice, or to any one authoriz ed by him to receive them, his legal fees to file appeal bond, and to transmit the papers used in the cause tried in said Court, to the County Court.” The Court submitted the issue as framed, and plaintiff excepted. The jury found that plaintiff did not, within the time prescribed, tender any fees to said Justice to file his appeal bend, or for any other purpose. Whereupon the Court gave judgment for defendants, and overruled a motion for a new trial.
Plaintiff appealed.
Baine & Bouldin, for Appellants.
S. W. Brockway, for Respondent.
2vo briefs on file.

Opinion:
Heydenfeldt, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Murray, C. J., concurred.
One of the conditions upon which an appeal is allowed from a Justice of the Peace, is the payment of the costs of the action. See Practice Act, sec. 621.
Judgment affirmed.