Bierce v. Red Bluff Hotel Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Second Judicial District, Tehama County. The defendant, the Bed Bluff Hotel Company, was a corporation. On the 25th day of July, 1863, it was indebted to defendant, Byers, for work in building a hotel at Bed Bluff, Tehama County, and upon a settlement, executed to Byers a written contract, by which the corporation agreed to pay him five thousand dollars in full for the indebtedness.
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Appeal from the District Court, Second Judicial District, Tehama County. The defendant, the Bed Bluff Hotel Company, was a corporation. On the 25th day of July, 1863, it was indebted to defendant, Byers, for work in building a hotel at Bed Bluff, Tehama County, and upon a settlement, executed to Byers a written contract, by which the corporation agreed to pay him five thousand dollars in full for the indebtedness. July 25th, 1863, Byers borrowed of Doll & Simpson one thousand dollars, and as collateral security for its payment at the end of three months, assigned to them the contract of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
It was a material issue in this case, whether the plaintiffs took the note and mortgage in suit, with notice that they were made on a settlement between Byers, the plaintiffs’ assignor, and the Red Bluff Hotel Company, in respect to a certain contract theretofore entered into between them, and that such contract had been assigned, or pledged, by Byers to Doll & Simpson before such settlement, and was held by them when the settlement was made. The finding upon that issue was as follows : “ It was stipulated, in open Court, by the attorneys of the Red Bluff Hotel…
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