Vanderslice v. Matthews
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The court found that the value of the pledged articles was $1,522.26, being the exact amount due on the note, for principal and interest.at the date of the findings. The further facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, C.
This action was originally brought against Elizabeth D. Traylor, as the administratrix of the estate of W. W. Traylor, deceased. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff's borrowed a certain sum of money from W. W. Traylor in his lifetime, and gave him as collateral security for the payment thereof a certain watch and two pairs of diamond ear-rings, valued at two thousand dollars; that at Traylor’s death a part of the money borrowed remaining Unpaid, the plaintiffs, on the twenty-first day of November, 1883, tendered it to Elizabeth D. Traylor, the administratrix of said decedent,…
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