California Safety Center, Inc. v. Jax Car Sales of California, Inc.

Opinion

JOHNSON, J.

This appeal challenges the trial court’s modification of judgment pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 662 whereby the court reduced the award of damages that had been granted pursuant to Civil Code section 1951.2 from $7,915 to $915. The central issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred when in applying Civil Code section 1951.2, it interpreted “at the time of award” as used in that section to mean at the time of the award of the prior unlawful detainer judgment rather than at the time of the award of judgment pursuant to the Civil Code section 1951.2 action…