Davis v. Drew
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment for the defendant and an order denying a new trial in the Fifteenth District Court, City and County of San Francisco. Denson, J. The following is the testimony: I had a subcontract with Jordan and Hunan to furnish iron. Question.
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Appeal from a judgment for the defendant and an order denying a new trial in the Fifteenth District Court, City and County of San Francisco. Denson, J. The following is the testimony: I had a subcontract with Jordan and Hunan to furnish iron. Question. How, Guttenberg, state whether you had a conversation with Mr. Jordan at the Arcade Hotel on the evening of the 19th, the day before he went to San Francisco, and before this sale took place under the Brown judgment, and what he said to you. Counsel for the plaintiff objected to the question on the ground that Davis was not present, and that it…
1Opinion of the Court
Thornton, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for an alleged conversion of personal property. The defendant, in his answer, denied, without qualification, all the allegations of the complaint, except as to the value of the property, which was averred in the complaint to be nine thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty cents. To this averment *155the denial is that it (the value) was any greater than five thousand five hundred and seven dollars.
The.defendant then justifies, under process regularly issued to him as Sheriff of Sacramento County, in two actions, one against…
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