Pierce v. Whiting
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMcKee, J.
This suit is founded upon an undertaking, given in an attachment suit brought by the plaintiff against Frederick A. Hyde. The undertaking was given for the release from attachment of the yacht Startled Fawn, which had been seized, by the attachment issued in the case, as the property of the said Hyde, to secure payment of any judgment-which might be recovered in the action against him. By the undertaking, the defendants promised that in case the plaintiff recovered judgment against Hyde in the action, he would, on demand, redeliver the property so released from the attachment, to the proper…
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