Court Opinion

ID: 9538760
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:41:16.59652+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:08.485144
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EDMONDS, J.
Because, in my opinion, prohibition is not the proper remedy, I concur in the judgment denying the petition for the writ and discharging the alternative writ.
The principal objections in this proceeding are to the interlocutory judgment, which is not appealable. In effect, Banks seeks, and the majority permit, the writ to be used as a method of appeal from that judgment. As stated in the opinion, 11 There is a serious obstacle to a review of the interlocutory judgment by the writ which petitioner requests because there is nothing there to prohibit. ’' However, despite this difficulty, the basic issue is decided upon the merits without the benefit of any record on appeal or transcript of the evidence. Lacking these essentials to an adequate review of the judgment, the majority are forced to assume most of the relevant facts and imply much of the remainder from the limited, and confusing, findings made by the trial court. It is impossible, from the few facts which appear, to determine whether the issue is correctly decided upon the merits. It well may be that the record, which is not before this court, would disclose judicial interference with denominational doctrine.
The petitioner has not alleged any reasons why he will be injured by awaiting the final judgment, from which he may appeal. The trial has been completed and little remains to be done before a final adjudication. For this reason, the general rule of inadequacy of an appeal after trial when the court has no jurisdiction to proceed with the action is not here applicable. The expenditure of time and money alone is not sufficient to render the remedy by appeal inadequate. (Jollie v. Superior Court, 38 Cal.2d 52, 56 [237 P.2d 641].) Apparently, the delay and expense to carry *65the action to final judgment will be negligible in comparison to that already incurred.
The real purpose of the present proceeding is to review a judgment from which no appeal lies, rather than to prevent the court from hearing and determining an action of which it does not have jurisdiction. The final judgment, from which an appeal will lie, obviously will be based upon issues of law and fact already determined by the interlocutory judgment. There is no showing that the petitioner will be prejudiced by awaiting his proper remedy by appeal. If that procedure were followed, this court would then have before it a record upon which to review the judgment.
Petitioners’ application for a rehearing was denied January 8, 1953. Edmonds, J., was of the opinion that the petition should be granted.