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PASADENA INV. CO. v. PEERLESS CAS. CO.

Docket No. 8645.

134 Cal.App.2d Supp. 902 (1955)

286 P.2d 1014

PASADENA INVESTMENT COMPANY (a Corporation), Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PEERLESS CASUALTY COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles.

July 8, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLaughlin & Casey for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Anderson, McPharlin & Conners for Defendants and Appellants.

BISHOP, Acting, P.J.

It may well be that when this action returns to the trial court, steps will be taken to give that court jurisdiction to try it — over again. The futility of this procedure does not escape us, nor does it avoid its necessity. [1] Trying a case before a court that lacks jurisdiction is itself a futile act, and an appeal from a judgment following such a trial can have only one outcome, a reversal.

The trial court lacked...

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