Pacific Dry Goods Co. v. Superior Court

More than five years after petitioner had filed an appeal in the superior court from a judgment rendered against it by a justice of the peace while exercising the jurisdiction of the small claims court, the superior court, on motion of the plaintiff in the action, dismissed the appeal pursuant to the mandatory provisions of section 981a of the Code of Civil Procedure, which require the superior court, on its own initiative or on motion of any interested party, to dismiss any appeal theretofore or thereafter taken from the justice court when the appealing party has failed to bring said appeal…