Fox v. Windemere Hotel Apartment Co.
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. James M. Seawell, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtKerrigan, J.
This is an action in claim and delivery brought by plaintiff to recover a certain trunk and its contents, in possession of the defendants, of which plaintiff claimed to be the owner. The defendants, answering, alleged that they came into possession of the property as lodging-house keepers, and that they detained it by virtue of a lien, given to them as such by the provisions of section 1861 of the Civil Code, as security for the payment of the sum of $13.60 claimed to be due to them from plaintiff.
The case went to trial, and the plaintiff recovered judgment for the return of the property, or…
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