Fletcher v. Daingerfield
California Supreme Court
Certiorari to the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District. The relator, J. A. Fletcher, presented to the Supreme Court an affidavit in substance as follows: That in October, 1857, he was admitted as an attorney and counselor in the Supreme Court; that on the first day of October, 1860, in the District Court of the Ninth District, he moved for default, judgment, and assessment of damages in a suit therein pending, in which he was attorney of record for the plaintiff;…
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Certiorari to the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District. The relator, J. A. Fletcher, presented to the Supreme Court an affidavit in substance as follows: That in October, 1857, he was admitted as an attorney and counselor in the Supreme Court; that on the first day of October, 1860, in the District Court of the Ninth District, he moved for default, judgment, and assessment of damages in a suit therein pending, in which he was attorney of record for the plaintiff; that the presiding Judge of said Court overruled the motion and continued the cause for the term, and afterwards, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
At a term of the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, held in the county of Siskiyou, in October, 1860, the relator, who was at the time an attorney and counselor, moved the Court “ for default, and for judgment and assessment of damages ” in a certain action then pending between Boles and Dain, plaintiffs, and Weifenbaeh and Russell, defendants, basing his motion on various grounds; and among others, on the ground that one Cosby, a stranger to the action, had filed an answer, after default of Russell, one of the defendants, which was without verification, and had not been served on…
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