Lankton v. Superior Court

Proceeding to review order of trial court or prohibit said court from modifying judgment after the time for appeal from said judgment and for motion for new trial has elapsed. No showing was attempted to be made that the judgment had been rendered through the mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect of the defendant. Therefore, the court was without authority to modify the judgment upon any of those grounds under the provisions of section 473 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The modification which the court in its memorandum opinion indicated it proposed to make in the judgment was…