Parker v. De Bernardi
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action by Constance E. Parker against Rick De Bernardi. From a judgment for plaintiff, and an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action by Constance E. Parker against Rick De Bernardi. From a judgment for plaintiff, and an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Foreign laws, or laws of sister states, must be proven like any other independent fact, and it was for the jury to find from the evidence offered, what was the law of California; but the lower court, by its instruction, took from the jury this power, and instructed them as to this matter of fact. (Cavender v. Guild, 4 Cal. 250; Sutherland, Code P. & P., vol. 1,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
McCarran, C. J.:
Some time during the year 1899 the appellant, Rick De Bernardi, and respondent, who in this action styles herself "Constance E. Parker,” took up life together in the city of San Francisco, State of California. Respondent was at that time, according to the record, the wife of one Parker. S.he was then conducting a place of business in the city of San Francisco. Appellant testifies that it was a rooming-house; respondent unblushingly declares it was a house of prostitution. Some time during the year 1900 respondent here secured a decree of divorce from her former…
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