Bishop v. Hubbard
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, Placer County. Bishop & Long were general partners, and had been for several years engaged in ranching, and raising, buying, and selling sheep and cattle. They owned two tracts of land which had been acquired with the partnership funds. Their circumstances had become embarrassed, and their creditors were pressing them.
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Appeal from the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, Placer County. Bishop & Long were general partners, and had been for several years engaged in ranching, and raising, buying, and selling sheep and cattle. They owned two tracts of land which had been acquired with the partnership funds. Their circumstances had become embarrassed, and their creditors were pressing them. On the twentieth day of May, 1861, they made a division of their real estate, and executed mutual deeds. Bishop had been residing on one of the tracts for several years with his family, and in the division this tract…
1Opinion of the CourtCrocker, J.
Bishop & Long were partners engaged in an extensive business, and as such owned the tract of land in controversy, on which is a dwelling-house, the house and land having been occupied by Bishop, with his family, as them homestead for several years. Becoming embarrassed, they made a division of their real estate, and executed mutual deeds to each other under it, by which the title to this property became vested in Bishop, who duly filed and had recorded his declaration of homestead. The defendants are creditors of Bishop & Long, and as such obtained judgments on their debts and levied upon the…
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