White v. Tacoma Lumber Sales, Inc.

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[Civ. No. 10064. Third Dist. May 26, 1961.]

WILLIAM VIRGIL WHITE, Respondent, v. TACOMA LUMBER SALES, INC. (a Corporation) et al., Defendants; HOLMES- DOUGLAS LUMBER COMPANY (a Partnership) et al., Appellants.

COUNSEL

Blaine McGowan for Appellants.

D. E. Cavileer and DeMeo & DeMeo for Respondent.

OPINION

VAN DYKE, P. J.

This is an appeal from a money judgment in a personal injury action.

Before the entry of the judgment appellants made a motion [192 Cal. App. 2d 616] for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. They did not at that time reserve the right to apply for a new trial. However, a week later they filed a notice of motion for a new trial. The trial court struck this motion and denied the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Thereafter judgment was entered on the verdict in favor of respondent.

[1] Appellants assign as error the striking of their motion for a new trial. There was no error. Appellants waived the right to apply for a new trial by failing to contemporaneously reserve such right at the time they made a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. (Code Civ. Proc., ยง 629; Estate of Jackson, 157 Cal. App. 2d 198, 203-204 [320 P.2d 563].) Moreover, appellants did not file the notice of intention to move for a new trial within five days after making the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict as required by section 659 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The judgment is affirmed.

Peek, J., and Schottky, J., concurred.

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