Smith v. McDermott
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of San Mateo County dismissing an action, and from a judgment entered thereon. ' The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Belcher, C.
This is an action to recover damages for slander. The complaint was filed in the superior *422court of San Mateo County on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1887. The summons was issued on the 18th of February, 1888, and on that day the plaintiff filed a written undertaking in the sum of five hundred dollars to meet the requirements of the “act concerning actions for libel and slander ” passed March 23, 1872. (Stats. 1871-72, p. 533.) The undertaking was executed in the city and county of San Francisco, and in the affidavit annexed thereto each of the sureties stated that he was “ a…
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