Seligman v. Armando
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. The action is one of claim and delivery, brought by the plaintiff, Carl Seligman, as the receiver of an insolvent debtor, Pauline Calori, to recover a portion of a stock of groceries, of the value of five hundred dollars, alleged to belong to the insolvent, and to have been removed and secreted by her for the purpose of defrauding her creditors, and to have been…
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. The action is one of claim and delivery, brought by the plaintiff, Carl Seligman, as the receiver of an insolvent debtor, Pauline Calori, to recover a portion of a stock of groceries, of the value of five hundred dollars, alleged to belong to the insolvent, and to have been removed and secreted by her for the purpose of defrauding her creditors, and to have been received and mingled by the defendant with her own goods in another store building, so that the same were indistinguishable,…
1Opinion of the CourtPaterson, J.
The appellant relies for a reversal of the judgment upon the insufficiency of the evidence to support the findings. We have read the testimony, and think there is abundant evidence to support all the findings of the court. While it is true the only direct testimony as to the value of the goods taken is that of the defendant, there is sufficient evidence in the statement to support the finding of the court that the property was worth five hundred dollars. Defendant testified that she paid Mrs. Calori $325 for the property, and that the price agreed upon was “a little less than she had paid.”…
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