Masten v. Griffing
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The plaintiff appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Shafter, J.:
This is an action to recover the sum of three thousand dollars for services alleged to have been performed for the defendant by one Henry Leffingwell, as broker. The plaintiff claims as assignee of Leffingwell. The plaintiff was non-suited at the trial, and the only question presented is whether the evidence put in by the plaintiff in his opening tended to prove the cause of action set up in the complaint. (Cravens v. Dewey, 13 Cal. 40.) We are of the opinion that the case was not supported by the evidence upon which the plaintiff rested, and that the nonsuit was…
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