Hazard v. McAndrews

Citations

• 18 Wash. 392
• 51 P. 1064
• 1897 Wash. LEXIS 176

Syllabus

<p>CHANGE IN JUDGES — AUTHORITY OF SUCCESSOR TO SIGN JUDGMENT RENDERED BY PREDECESSOR.</p> <p>Where an order made by a judge on the trial of a cause disposes of all the issues, his successor has jurisdiction to sign the necessary judgment to be entered therein, as such act is a purely formal matter not involving the exercise of any discretion and does not fall under the prohibition of Laws 1893, p. 63 (Bal. Code, §4697), which forbids a judge to act in a case “when he was not present and sitting as a member of the court at the hearing of a matter submitted for its decision.”</p>