Crawford v. Roberts

By tbe Court,

Prim, J.:

Tins was a several action against tbe respondent upon a joint and several promissory note, made, executed, and delivered by him and B. E. Freeland to the appellant, at San Francisco, California, on May 1, 1869.

To this cause of action tbe respondent undertook to set up two defenses: 1. That said note was executed and made payable in tbe state of California; that tbe respondent was, at tbe time of tbe making of said note, a resident thereof, and lias been ever since, and now is a resident of said state, and tbe statute of limitation of tbe state of California is there set…