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[l] Appeal—Interlocutory Judgment—Action to Wind Up Defunct Corporation.—An interlocutory judgment in an action by a stockholder of a defunct corporation to compel the trustees to wind up its affairs declaring the status of the plaintiff as a stockholder, directing the trustees to render and file a full inventory and accounting of the properties of the corporation and reserving for future disposition all further proceedings in the matter of the accounting and settlement of the affairs, is not one of the interlocutory judgments, orders or decrees specified in section 963 of the Code of Civil Procedure from which appeals are permitted to be taken, and an appeal taken from such a judgment must be dismissed.Motion to dismiss appeal from the interlocutory judgment herein.
The facts of this case are sufficiently set forth in our former decisions in the cases of Rossi v. Caire, 174 Cal. 74 [ 161 Pac. 1161 ], and Rossi v. Caire, 186 Cal. 544 [ 199 Pac. 1042 ]. In the latter of these cases the judgment in the defendants’ favor was reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings consistent with the views expressed in that decision. Thereafter the trial' court made and entered its interlocutory judgment in the plaintiff’s favor, declaring the status of the plaintiff as a stockholder of the Santa Cruz Island Company, a defunct corporation, and directing the defendants as trustees thereof to render and file a full inventory and accounting of the properties of said corporation in their hands as the trustees thereof, and take
[1] We think the motion must be granted. In the first ease of Rossi v. Caire, 174 Cal. 74 [ 161 Pae. 1161 ], this court, in discussing a similar decree in a previous action between the same parties, for substantially the same relief, held that the judgment in that action “merely declared the status of the plaintiff as a stockholder, the number of his shares, his right to distribution and directed the trustees to give notice to creditors and file an inventory of the assets of the corporation. In its nature and effect it was preliminary and interlocutory and not final.” The appeal in that case was from certain subsequent orders made upon the filing of such inventory and which directed the sale of the properties and distribution of the funds of the corporation as reported therein. This court held that these orders were appealable as final judgments and that upon such appeal “there may be a review of the previous proceedings, including the sufficiency of the findings to support the interlocutory judgment. These rulings cover the precise situation as presented upon the appeal except that the appeal in this case is from the interlocutory judgment itself. Said interlocutory judgment is not one of the interlocutory judgments, orders or decrees specified in section 963 of the Code of Civil Procedure from which appeals are permitted to be taken, and the court is therefore without jurisdiction of the attempted appeal. (Krotzer v. Clark, 178 Cal. 736 [ 174 Pac. 657 ].) It follows that this appeal must be dismissed and it is so ordered.
Richards, J., pro tem., Shaw, C. J., Lennon, J., Lawlor, J., Wilbur, J., ando Waste, J., concurred.
Cases cited
- Rossi v. Caire 174 Cal. 74 p. 507, p. 508
- Rossi v. Caire 186 Cal. 544 p. 507
- Krotzer v. Clark 178 Cal. 736 p. 508