Meier v. Superior Court

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent court and the judge thereof, on a motion to that end, made in said court, to make and enter an order dismissing the appeal in a certain action appealed to said court from the justice’s court of Newman township, in the county of Stanislaus.

The motion to dismiss was based upon section 981a of the Code of Civil Procedure, which was added to said code by an act of the legislature of 1923, the title of which reads as follows: “An Act to add a new section to the Code of Civil Procedure, to be numbered 981a relating to…