Court Opinion

ID: 9633829
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Date Created: 2023-08-22 12:02:12.526756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:08.165814
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McCOMB, J., pro tem., Dissenting.
I dissent.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant entered after the trial court granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.
The conceded facts, so far as material here, arc:
Respondent at the close of her ease made a motion for a directed verdict in her favor, which was granted. No exception was taken or noted by appellant at the time.
*20In my view the solé question necessary to determine is:
Will an appellate court■ review a trial court’s ruling in granting a motion for a directed verdict, if appellant does not take an exception at the time the motion is granted f
This question must be answered in the negative. It is well settled that an appellate court will not review a ruling of a trial court, unless an exception has been taken by appellant at the time of the decision, except as to orders and proceedings listed in section 647 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Estate of Magerl, 201 Cal. 162 [256 Pac. 204]; Craig v. Hesperia Land & Water Co., 107 Cal. 675 [40 Pac. 1057].)
A motion for a directed verdict is not within the list of orders and proceedings of the trial court which are deemed to be excepted to by section 647 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Therefore, since no exception was taken to the decision when it was made, the judgment should be affirmed.
A petition for a rehearing of this cause was denied by the District Court of Appeal on August 24, 1936, and an application by respondent to have the cause heard in the Supreme Court, after judgment in the District Court of Appeal, was denied by the Supreme Court on September 28, 1936.