Court Opinion

ID: 5444435
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 18:08:21.94929+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:07.952783
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Paterson, J.
—This is an application based upon the
provisions of section 652 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to prove an exception which it is alleged the court refused to allow in accordance with the facts. It appears from the petition and from the record that the statement was served on October 23, 1888, and the amendment thereto December 28,1888; that the statement was settled *45on May 9, 1889; that under a stipulation of counsel for plaintiff and defendants, the settlement of the proposed statement was submitted to the judge upon briefs. This stipulation provided that as soon as the statement was settled, plaintiff’s motion for a new trial should be deemed to be made and submitted to the judge for his decision without argument, and that any further notice of the time of the settlement of the statement, and of the hearing of the motion for a new trial, should be waived by both parties. On May 10,1889, the attorneys for plaintiff filed a written motion for a new trial, stating that “this motion is made upon said settled statement and the judgment roll in said action.....The
above motion is submitted without argument pursuant to stipulation on file herein.” On May 10, 1889, the judge made a written order denying the motion for a new trial, which was filed on May 14, 1889. Notice of appeal from the order denying the motion for a new trial was served July 11, 1889. This application was made August 20, 1889.
The petitioner comes too late to this court with his application for relief. He was charged with notice that the judge might strike out the matter which was in fact stricken out, and, of course, had notice of the fact, when the statement was settled and filed, that the exception which he now asks to prove had not been allowed by the judge. It does not appear that any request was made of the judge below to delay the settlement of the bill, or a ruling on the motion for a new trial, until an application could be made to this court to prove the exception desired. By submitting the settlement of the statement, and his motion for a new trial in the manner stated above, we think he lost his right to apply to this court for redress of the grievance complained of. It is too late after the court below has acted upon a statement duly settled to prove an exception in this court,—certainly too late after an appeal has been perfected. If this *46application should be granted, the appeal from the order denying a new trial would be heard upon matters which were not in the record, and which were not considered by the court below on motion for a new trial.
Motion denied.
Fox, J., McFarland, J., Sharpstein, J., and Thornton, J., concurred.