Beal v. Superior Court

On August 15, 1933, the petitioner herein obtained a judgment in the police court of the city of Fresno in an action in which he was plaintiff. The defendant in that action moved for a new trial, which motion - was denied on September 14, 1933, and, on that day, the defendant appealed to the superior court on questions of both law and fact.

Under the charter of the city of Fresno the laws applicable to township justices’ courts were made applicable to this police court, and that particular judicial township contained a population of more than thirty thousand. It is conceded that at the time…