Court Opinion

ID: 9864480
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:16:57.049281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:12:55.655725
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THE COURT.
The petitionfor a rehearing of this cause in the supreme court is denied.
The district court of appeal, in its opinion, says that section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure ‘ ‘ provides that the appellant shall file his notice of appeal with the clerk. ’ ’ This section has been misapprehended by some practitioners, and lest there be further misapprehension by reason of this language we take this occasion to correct it.
Section 953a does not provide at all for a notice of appeal. The purpose of that section, in connection with sections 953b and 953c, is to provide a method of preparing the record or transcript to be filed in the proper appellate court in support *288of the appeal. None of the proceedings there prescribed are jurisdictional to the appeal.
The appeal may be taken either in the manner provided by sections 940 and 941 of the Code of Civil Procedure, or in that provided by sections 941a, 941b, and 941c of the Code of Civil Procedure. When properly taken by either method, the appellate court to which it is taken has jurisdiction of the appeal, even if no transcript on appeal is ever filed to support it. It may dismiss such appeal for delay in filing the transcript. But such dismissal will be a dismissal for want of diligence in prosecuting it, and not a dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of the appeal.
Whether the superior court may, or may not, dismiss proceedings to obtain a record taken under section 953a, on the ground that such proceedings have not been diligently prosecuted, we need not say, but it is obvious that such proceedings are in aid of the appeal, and for no other purpose, and that the final determination of the question whether they have been diligently prosecuted must remain in the appellate court tp which the appeal is properly taken.