Briggs v. McCullough
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, Sacramento County. The respondent moved to dismiss the appeal, because the judgment adjuging the appellant guilty of a contempt was not subject to review on appeal. The Court do not pass on this motion. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
Briggs obtained a money judgment against McCullough and others, on which an execution was duly issued. After proper proceedings in that behalf, McCullough was ordered to appear before a referee, appointed by the Court for that purpose, to be examined touching his property. In the course of his examination before the referee he admitted that he had deposited with the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California the sum of two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars in gold coin, and took from said company an agreement, called an “ endowment policy,”…
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