People v. Cummings

Sharpstein, J.:

The evidence in this case tends to prove that the defendant, about the 1st of October, 1878, went to one Asa Eisk, at San Francisco, and asked him to advance $300 to pay the balance due on a purchase of ten tons of broom-corn, by the defendant, of Hong Po & Co. of Marysville, as evidenced by their bill of sale to him. Fisk declined to advance the sum applied for, without an absolute transfer of the property to him by the defendant; and thereupon he signed a certificate on the back of *89the bill of sale of the broom-corn from Hong Po & Co. to him, to the effect that he had sold…