Hastain & Purman, Inc. v. Superior Court

The alternative writ of mandate is discharged and the petition is denied. The following considerations justify this action.

The question is whether or not petitioner’s appeal from a judgment of the Justice’s Court of Montebello Township, Los Angeles County, California, to the Superior Court of said county, authorizes a trial de nova therein under section 976 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The action here under consideration was begun on May 16, 1929, tried upon its merits in said Justice’s Court on August 16, 1929, decided on August 30, 1929, and from the judgment that day entered in favor of…