Grain v. Aldrich
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth District, City and County of San Francisco. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. As the case came here on demurrer to the complaint, the argument on the part of the defendants and respondents is first given.
1Opinion of the CourtSanderson, J.
The plaintiffs, as agents for the Bank of British North America, sue to recover of the defendants, formerly engaged in business in Honolulu, under the name of Aldrich, Walker 6 Co., the aggregate sum of $132,236 25.
The complaint contains three counts, in each of which the same claim is stated in different modes. The facts, however, are, that the defendants were indebted to the firm of Charles W. Brooks & Co. in the sum of $159,000 and upwards; that Brooks & Co. sold and assigned a part of said indebtedness, *519to wit, the sum. of $44,078, to the plaintiffs, of which assignment the defendants had…
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