Skidmore v. Taylor
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Walter Skidmore was arrested on a criminal charge, in Marin County, on the 10th day of December, 1859, and an order was made by the examining magistrate holding him to bail in the sum of five thousand dollars.
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Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Walter Skidmore was arrested on a criminal charge, in Marin County, on the 10th day of December, 1859, and an order was made by the examining magistrate holding him to bail in the sum of five thousand dollars. Walter A. Skidmore, the plaintiff, and Louis Denos, and Egbert Van Allen, signed the recognizance, and to secure Denos and Van Allen, the plaintiff deposited with Daniel T. Taylor, the defendant, a buckskin bag, sealed up, containing sixteen hundred and twelve dollars in gold coin, and a number…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.
There was no error in admitting the depositions of Hanson, Bullis and Taylor. Section four hundred and twenty-eight of the Practice Act provides that testimony may be taken by deposition, where the witness is a party to the action. Hanson and Taylor were defendants to the action. The section also provides that the testimony may be taken by deposition when the witness resides out of the county in which his testimony is to be used. All of those witnesses resided out of the county in which the action was tried.
The Court found that Denos and Van Allen, for whose benefit…
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