Lord v. Hough
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Júdicial District, City and County of San Francisco. In the divorce suit spoken of in the opinion, C. S. Lord obtained a divorce in 1867, and the Court, in its decree, awarded him the custody of his three infant children, and decreed that he pay his wife one hundred dollars per month during her natural life, or in lieu thereof, the sum of ten thousand dollars, at his election.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Júdicial District, City and County of San Francisco. In the divorce suit spoken of in the opinion, C. S. Lord obtained a divorce in 1867, and the Court, in its decree, awarded him the custody of his three infant children, and decreed that he pay his wife one hundred dollars per month during her natural life, or in lieu thereof, the sum of ten thousand dollars, at his election. Afterwards, and September 21st, 1867, the Court granted the defendant a new trial, and the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court from the order granting the new trial. This…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Niles, J.:
The plaintiff was the widow of C. S. Lord, deceased. C. S. Lord died in July, 1868, leaving estate of the value of from one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand dollars, all of which was common property of plaintiff and deceased; and a will, appointing the defendants, Wooster, Knight, and Hudd, his executors. On the 7th of April, 1868, Lord conveyed to his mother, Olive S. Hough, one of the defendants, a parcel of land at Menlo Park, containing about six and three quarter acres, and then of the value of about four thousand dollars. The deed purported to be in…
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