Campbell v. Jones
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, Placer County. This action was for the return of certain iron pipe, and apparatus for hydraulic mining, alleged to be detained by defendant, and in default thereof, for its value, laid at the sum of two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety cents, together with damages for wrongful detention.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, Placer County. This action was for the return of certain iron pipe, and apparatus for hydraulic mining, alleged to be detained by defendant, and in default thereof, for its value, laid at the sum of two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety cents, together with damages for wrongful detention. The defendant, on the other' hand, set up that the property was worth only nine hundred and fifty dollars; that he had received it from the plaintiff by way of pledge to secure the repayment of money loaned and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sprague, J.:
The verdict of the jury was rendered on the 17th clay of May, 1870. On the 18th day of May, 1870, "defendant duly served and filed his notice of motion for new trial, and on the same day requested the District Judge, out of Court, to grant an order for five days additional time to file statement on motion for new trial. The District Judge, on said request, said that at the meeting of Court he would have said order entered of record in said cause, but failed tq have the order made of record by oversight. Thereupon defendant’s attorney left Auburn, the county seat,…
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