60 P. 667 | Cal. | 1900
A judgment of divorce was entered in the superior court in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant June 25, 1897. No judgment was rendered for costs, nor is any question of property involved in the action. An order denying the defendant's motion for a new trial was made and entered November 9, 1897. January 4, 1898, the defendant appealed from this judgment and order. The appeal from the judgment was taken more than six months after its entry, and for that reason the judgment is not open *155
to review. After the transcript on appeal had been filed, and before the appeal was heard in this court, the defendant died. The action being solely for the purpose of determining her personal status it abated upon her death, and the court is deprived of all authority to review the proceedings of the superior court. We held in Kirschner v. Dietrich,
The appellant does not controvert this proposition so far as the action affects her personal status as a wife, but insists that the personal representatives of the wife have the right to have the appeal heard in order that, if it shall be determined that the superior court erred, they may recover from the respondent the costs incurred by them in taking the appeal.
The right to recover costs exists solely by virtue of statutory provision (see Downing v. Marshall,
Upon the foregoing authorities we must hold that the abatement of the suit has deprived the court of all authority to hear the appeal.
The appeal is dismissed.
Garoutte, J., and Van Dyke, J., concurred.