30 Cal. 182 | Cal. | 1866
When this case" was called for argument the defendant’s counsel presented to the Court exceptions, to the effect that no proper evidence of the service of notice of appeal appears in the transcript, which exceptions were duly taken and filed in accordance with a rule of the Court.
The notice of appeal contained in the transcript is in due form, but the evidence that a copy of such notice was served
“ State of California, ) „ County of Santa Clara, )
“ I, E. F. Peckham, do solemnly swear that I, on the 25th day of January, A. D. 1866, after the foregoing notice had been filed with the Clerk of the District Court of the County of Santa Clara, served a true copy thereof on Patterson, Wallace & Stow, attorneys for the defendant, by depositing said copy inclosed in an envelope and directed to said Patterson, Wallace & Stow, at San Francisco, their place of residence, in the Post Office at San José, my place of residence, and prepaying postage.” '
The affidavit was signed by E. F. Peckham and sworn to before a proper officer on the day last named and filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court on the same day. The notice itself is signed with the name of “John G. McCullough, Attorney-General,” and “ E. F. Peckham, of counsel.”
The three hundred and thirty-seventh section of the Practice Act provides the mode of taking an appeal, in the following words: “The1 appeal shall be made by filing with the Clerk of the Court with whom the judgment or order appealed from is entered, a notice stating the appeal from the same or some part thereof, and serving a copy of the same upon the adverse party or his attorney.”
The service of written notices and other papers, except original and final process, and except subpoenas, writs, etc., must 'be made on the attorney of a party, provided he has appeared by attorney. (Practice Act, Secs. 519, 523, 524.) Under certain specified circumstances the service of notices may be made through the mail. Service by mail may be made when the person making the service and the person on whom it is to be made reside in different places, between which there is a regular communication by mail. (Practice Act,¿3ec. 521.) The five hundred and twenty-second section of the Practice
The statute prescribes in detail what a party shall do in order to effect an appeal from a District Court to the Supreme Court. The notice of appeal must be filed and a copy served on the attorney for respondent, if he has an attorney; and then, to render the appeal effectual, the appellant must file an undertaking with sureties or deposit with the Clerk a certain sum of money within five days after the notice of appeal is filed. (Practice Act, Secs. 337 and 338.) It should appear in evidence from the record that the copy of the notice of appeal was served ; otherwise it cannot be intended this Court has any jurisdiction in the premises. (Franklin v. Reiner, 8 Cal. 340 ; Buffendeau v. Edmundson, 24 Cal. 94.)
Under the New York statute regulating the mode of serving notices and papers, which is the same as sections five hundred and twenty, five hundred and twenty-one, and five hundred and twenty-two of our Practice Act, the Courts of that State have uniformly held that a party relying upon a service by mail, or otherwise than by actual service on the proper person, must show a strict compliance with the requirements of the statute. (New York Code, Secs. 409, 410, 411; Bross v. Nicholson, 1 How. Pr. R. 158 ; Schenck v. McKie, Pr. R. 247 ; also, 1 Hill, 217, 218; 23 Wend. 677; Birdsall v. Taylor, 1 How. Pr. R. 89; Paddock v. Bebee, 2 Johns. Cas. 117.) It will be observed that by the five hundred and twenty-first section of the Practice Act, service by mail is good only where the persoij making the service and the person on whom it is to be made reside in different places, between which there is a
The defendant’s counsel make another objection to the alleged service of a copy of the notice of appeal, which is that in no event could service be made on the attorneys of the defendant by depositing a copy of the notice in the Post Office at San José, because that was not the place of residence of the Attorney-General, who was the plaintiff’s attorney. We do not deem it necessary to examine this objection, inasmuch as the first considered disposes of the case.
We decide the objection of the defendant well taken, and order the case dismissed.