California Law & Adjustment Co. v. Superior Court

On petition for writ of mandamus, to compel the dismissal of an appeal from a justice’s court.

According to section 981a of the Code of Civil Procedure, added to that code by the legislature at its 1923 session, it becomes the duty of a superior court to dismiss any appeal from a justice’s court, “where the appealing party fails to bring such appeal to trial within one year from the date of filing such appeal in such superior court, unless such time be otherwise extended by a written stipulation by the parties to the action filed with the clerk of the superior court to which the appeal is…