Duff v. Duff
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Humboldt County, and from an order granting a new trial to respondent upon -one issue, and from an order denying a new trial to appellants.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Humboldt County, and from an order granting a new trial to respondent upon -one issue, and from an order denying a new trial to appellants. The action was brought by the plaintiffs, Julia K. Duff -and Agnes Duff, who are the wife and infant daughter of William R. Duff, deceased, against the defendants, Robert P". Duff and Frank S. Duff, who are the brothers of said decedent, seeking to have the defendants declared trustees of the plaintiff of certain mill property in Eureka, Humboldt County, alleged to have been fraudulently conveyed to the…
1Opinion of the CourtWorks, J.
This case was heard in Bank, and decided after being twice orally argued and thoroughly and exhaustively briefed. A rehearing was granted, mainly because it was thought that the court below and this court had not given sufficient weight to a certain letter, written by the respondent’s intestate, containing certain admissions against his interest. This may have been so as to the court below, but it was not so as to the writer of this opinion, who wrote the opinion upon which the case was decided. In opposition to this admission, which was not by any means conclusive against the author of the…
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