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discussed Cited as authority (rule) Estate of Weber
Cal. Ct. App. · 1991 · confidence medium
(Estate of Stierlen (1926) 199 Cal. 140, 143 [ 248 P. 509 ]; Estate of Bartolo (1954) 124 Cal.App.2d 727, 731 [ 269 P.2d 30 ].) In Estate of Stierlen, supra, 199 Cal. at page 143 , the court explained: “It is true that a somewhat different rule applies in ordinary civil actions, that is, after an order is made sustaining a demurrer, which is not an appealable order, is followed by a judgment dismissing the action upon plaintiff’s failure to amend after demurrer sustained, an appeal can be taken from said judgment.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Menchaca v. Helms Bakeries, Inc.
Cal. · 1968 · confidence medium
An order granting a petition for hearing transfers the entire cause here (Knouse v. Nimocks (1937) 8 Cal.2d 482, 483-484 [ 66 P.2d 438 ] ;• Estate of Kent (1936) 6 Cal.2d 154, 156 [ 57 P.2d 901 ] ; Estate of Stierlen (1926) 199 Cal. 140, 144 [ 248 P. 509 ]), and the case is then to be" decided .on all issues, as if originally' appealed to "this court, regardless of the grounds relied on in the petition-.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Ponce v. Marr
Cal. · 1956 · confidence medium
(Moran v. District Court of Appeal, 15 Cal.2d 527, 530 [ 102 P.2d 1079 ] ; Stierlen Estate, 199 Cal. 140, 144 [ 248 P. 509 ] ; Rockridge Place Co. v. City Council, 178 Cal. 58, 60 [ 172 P. 1110 ].) Again it was stated in Knouse v. Nimocks, 8 Cal.2d 482 , at page 483 [ 66 P.2d 438 ] : “The opinion and decision of the District Court of Appeal, by our order of transfer, have become a nullity and are of no force or effect, either as a judgment or as an authoritative statement of any principle of law therein discussed. . . . [W] ithout some further express act of approval or adoption of said opin…
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Estate of Bartolo
Cal. Ct. App. · 1954 · confidence medium
(Cf. Estate of Patterson, 220 Cal. 370 [ 31 P.2d 197 ]; Estate of Stierlen, 199 Cal. 140, 142 [1] [ 248 P. 509 ].) The order admitting the will to probate is affirmed and the purported appeal from the judgment sustaining the demurrer to the second amended contest is dismissed.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Estate of Patterson
Cal. · 1934 · confidence medium
An order sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend to a contest before probate, not being designated in subdivision 3 of section 963 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the predecessor of the present section 1240 of the Probate Code, was held to be nonappealable in Estate of Stierlen, 199 Cal. 140, 142 [ 248 Pac. 509 ].
In the Matter of the Estate of GEORGE F. STIERLEN, Deceased. EMMA STIERLEN, Appellant,
v.
ROSA SCOTT, Respondent
Docket No. S.F. 11332..
California Supreme Court.
Jul 26, 1926.
248 P. 509
Charles F. Hanlon for Appellant. Harry K. Wolff and Geo. A. Connolly for Respondent.
Curtis.
Cited by 11 opinions  |  Published
[*142] CURTIS, J.

Motion to dismiss appeal. This is a contest for the probate of a document purporting to be the last will and testament of George P. Stierlen, deceased. The executrix and sole devisee named in said document, Rosa Scott, filed a petition asking for the probate thereof as the last will and testament of said deceased. The contestant, Emma Stierlen, the surviving wife of said deceased, filed a contest thereto. In her written contest, which she filed after a voluntary dismissal by her of a prior contest to said will, said contestant set forth in five separate counts five distinct grounds wherein she asserted the invalidity of said document: 1, failure of execution; 2, unsoundness of mind; 3, undue influence; 4, actual fraud; 5, constructive fraud. The proponent of said will filed a motion to strike out the first count of said contest and a demurrer to the remaining four counts thereof. The court granted said motion and sustained said demurrer without leave to amend. A written order signed by the trial judge was made and filed striking out said count one. A written order was also signed and filed sustaining said demurrer without leave to amend and judgment was entered that the contestant take nothing by her contest and that proponent recover her costs. Respondent’s motion to dismiss said appeal is based upon the ground that the order striking out count one of said contest and the order sustaining the demurrer to the last four counts thereof and the judgment following said order are not appealable orders. The judgment and orders in probate proceedings from which an appeal can be taken are set forth and enumerated in subdivision 3 of section 963 of the Code of Civil Procedure. “The only appealable orders in probate matters are those designated in subdivision 3 of section 963 of the Code of Civil Procedure.” (Estate of Edelman, 148 Cal. 233 [113 Am. St. Rep. 231, 82 Pac. 962].) Neither an order striking out a contest or a count thereof, nor an order sustaining a demurrer to a contest is one of the orders enumerated in said subdivision of said section, and consequently, neither of them is an appealable order. Appellant further calls to our attention the fact that while the probate court made the order sustaining the demurrer to the four last counts of the contest, it followed up said order with a judgment that contestant take nothing by said contest and that proponent recover her[*143] costs. But this fact does not in any way assist appellant upon this appeal, as a judgment based upon an order sustaining a demurrer to a contest to the probate of a will is in no better standing, in so far as its being an appealable order is concerned, than an order sustaining such a demurrer, as neither an order sustaining a demurrer nor a judgment entered thereafter and based thereon is listed among the appealable orders enumerated in subdivision 3 of said section 963. It is true that a somewhat different rule applies in ordinary civil actions, that is, after an order is made sustaining a demurrer, which is not an appealable order, is followed by a judgment dismissing the action upon plaintiff's failure to amend after demurrer sustained, an appeal can be taken from said judgment. This, however, is not the rule as to a judgment rendered in a probate proceeding dismissing a contest after the sustaining of a demurrer thereto. (Estate of Rawson, 66 Cal. App. 144 [225 Pac. 474].) Neither are the orders appealed from orders made after final judgment, for no final judgment admitting or refusing to admit the will to probate, as far as the record shows, has been made by the probate court. Upon the entry of an order admitting said will to probate an appeal therefrom would lie and in the consideration of said appeal the validity of the orders herein sought to be appealed from would be proper matters for review. (Estate of Rawson, supra; Estate of Edelman, supra.)

It is contended by appellant that a motion to dismiss this appeal, having originally been made in the district court of appeal and denied by said court, has become final and that it is not within the power of this court to review the same nor to entertain a motion made anew herein to dismiss said appeal. Respondent made said motion to dismiss this appeal in the district court of appeal and said court denied the same. No petition for a hearing of this cause has been made to this court by respondent. The appellant, however, filed a petition for a hearing herein, not for the reason that she was dissatisfied with the action of the district court of appeal in refusing to grant respondent’s motion to dismiss, but for the reason that the ruling of the district court of appeal sustaining the action of the probate court in striking out the first count of her contest to the probate of said will was considered by her to have been[*144] erroneous. The petition of appellant was granted and this court made an order transferring said cause to this court for hearing. This was done under the authority of section 4 of article VI of the constitution, which provides as follows: “The Supreme Court shall have power ... to order any cause pending before.the District Court of Appeal to be heard and determined by the Supreme Court.” “When such an order is made within the time prescribed in the Constitution the decision of the district court of appeal is vacated and the matter is transferred to this court for a determination of all the material questions involved therein, to the same extent as if originally instituted in this court.” (Rockridge Place Co. v. City Council, 178 Cal. 58, 60 [172 Pac. 1110].)

It follows, therefore, that this court is not limited in the action it may now take in the consideration of the motion presented upon this appeal by any decision or order made, or action taken, in this case while the same was pending in said district court of appeal. A motion to dismiss an appeal is one of the motions which may properly come before this court, and which this court may be called upon to determine, in any case originally appealed hereto. It therefore has the same right, and it is its duty, to entertain the motion made herein by respondent to dismiss said appeal in all respects as if said cause had never been before said district court of appeal. It is ordered that said appeal be and the same is hereby dismissed.

Seawell, J., Waste, C. J., Shenk, J., and Richards, J., concurred.