Goodwin v. Hammond
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth District. The bill was based upon an attachment levied by plaintiffs, as creditors of defendants, Chittle & Wardner, on the stock in the California Coal Company, transferred by them to defendant, Hammond. Plaintiff had judgment, and defendant, Hammond, who alone answered, appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Terry, C. J. concurring.
Bill to set aside as fraudulent two transfers of stock of the California Coal Company, from the defendants, Chittle and Wardner, to defendant Hammond. -
The Court below, on express evidence of the existence of the fraud, found for the plaintiff.
Several points are made by the Appellant.
1. That this proof was made by one witness only, and this in contradiction to the defendant’s answer, which was responsive to, and negatived the charge in the bill; and that, by the rule of equity pleading, this is not sufficient.
The point is not well taken. We have held recently, in…
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