Legal Opinion

Sweetland v. Shattuck

California Supreme Court

Decided October 21, 1884No. 7,064PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the late District Court of the Nineteenth Judicial District of the State of California, and from an order of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco refusing a new trial. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtRoss, J.

Assuming that the agreement upon which the plaintiff relied for a recovery was required to be evidenced by writing, the plaintiff was permitted in the court below to give proof of the agreement without objection that it was not in writing. Such objection cannot be made here for the first time. (Reed on the Statute of Frauds, vol. 2d, §§ 540, 541, and authorities there cited.)

The evidence upon which the verdict was based was substantially conflicting, and there were no exceptions taken in the court below to the instructions of the court.

Judgment and order affirmed.

McKinstry, J., and McKee, J.,…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Durbin v. HillmanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1920
  2. McLaughlin v. WheelerSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1891
  3. Schultz v. NobleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888

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