Abbott v. Douglass
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventh Judicial District, Mendocino County. The defendant appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Shafter, J.
This is an action for false imprisonment. The defendant in his answer denies the allegations of the complaint seriatim, and states a special defense by way of justification. Both the complaint and the answer aim verified. The defendant was defaulted, and thereupon judgment was rendered against him for three thousand dollars—the full amount claimed in the complaint.
There is a diversity of interlocutory orders and other entries in the transcript, showing in detail the movement of the cause in the Court below, and on which the appellant relies, in the main, to make out…
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