Court Opinion

ID: 9563270
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:38:12.160908+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:47.378199
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SCHAUER., J.
I concur in the judgment of affirmance but dissent from the holding that the order appealed from is not appealable.
The motion to stay proceedings was made under the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Belief Act of 1940 (§ 201, chap. 888, 54 U.S. Stats. 1178, 1181). The order entered on such motion provides “That the motion to stay any further proceedings including proceedings on appeal be and the same is hereby granted, on the ground that, in the opinion of this Court, the plaintiff cannot properly prosecute this action, by reason of his military service; and that said plaintiff, Dino Preftokis, is granted a stay of proceedings for the period of his military service in the armed forces of the United States of America and for a period of sixty days thereafter, in which to prepare his record on appeal, together with the bill of exceptions.”
I would agree that an order merely extending the time for preparation of a record on appeal is not appealable but the above quoted order effectuates more than a mere extension of time to prepare a record. It is an absolute stay, for the time indicated, of all proceedings in the cause. Whether an order made after final judgment is a “special order made after final judgment” within the meaning of section 963(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure depends on whether such an order affects the final judgment in some manner or bears *638some relation to it either by way of enforcing it or staying its execution.
The judgment in this case, from which the appeal was taken, is a judgment that plaintiff take nothing and that defendants recover “their costs amounting to the sum of $19.64 and $135.40.’’ Insofar as concerns enforcing the judgment for the costs the taking of the appeal automatically stayed execution. (McCallion v. Hibernia etc. Society (1893), 98 Cal. 442, 445 [33 P. 329]; Whitaker v. Title Ins. etc. Co. (1918), 179 Cal. 111, 114 [175 P. 460].) Under, these circumstances, then, the effect of the order staying indefinitely all proceedings in the case is to stay indefinitely execution on the judgment. In fact, such stay order operates to suspend the judgment and all of the defendants’ rights thereunder for the duration of the war and sixty days thereafter.
Such an order, it seems to me, is appealable within the purview of section 963(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure. It follows that this proceeding should be dismissed and the order appealed from affirmed.
Edmonds, J., and Carter, J., concurred.