St. John v. Kidd
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, El Dorado County. In the course of the trial, plaintiffs offered in evidence the following bill of sale : “ This is to certify, that we have this day sold to Wm.
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Appeal from the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, El Dorado County. In the course of the trial, plaintiffs offered in evidence the following bill of sale : “ This is to certify, that we have this day sold to Wm. St. John, the undivided one half of four claims situated on Wild Goose Flat, and known as the St. John Claims, of two hundred feet square, for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, the receipt of which is hereby confessed; together with the tools and sluices. “ Wild Goose Flat, February 7th, 1857. “ S. J. Sweet, “Earl J. Barnet, “D. E. Jones, (by power of attorney.) ”…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sanderson, C. J.
The respondents make certain technical objections to the record in this case, which come too late. The case was decided upon its merits by the late Supreme Court, and thereafter upon petition that Court granted a rehearing ; but after the rehearing was had the record became lost and no final decision was made. At the April term of this Court' the appellants, with the consent of the respondents, were allowed to file the present transcript to supply the place of the former. In view of the history of the case it can hardly be presumed that the defects insisted upon,…
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