Stanford v. Scannell
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, County of San Francisco. This was an action to recover the possession of fifty-eight barrels of butter, and damages for the detention of the same. In August, 1856, plaintiff bought of Lowe, Ebbetts & Co., of San Francisco, fifty-eight barrels of butter, worth the sum of seventeen hundred dollars.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, County of San Francisco. This was an action to recover the possession of fifty-eight barrels of butter, and damages for the detention of the same. In August, 1856, plaintiff bought of Lowe, Ebbetts & Co., of San Francisco, fifty-eight barrels of butter, worth the sum of seventeen hundred dollars. At the time of the purchase, the butter was in the cellar of the warehouse of Lowe, Ebbetts & Co., who were merchants, doing a jobbing and commission business in the city of San Francisco, and who were sometimes in the habit of receiving…
1ConcurrenceTerry, C. J.
*9This case raises the same questions which were considered and decided upon a similar state of facts, in Stewart v. Scannell, (8 Cal., 80.) Upon the authority of that case, the judgment of the Court below is affirmed.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stewart v. ScannellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1857
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