Harpending v. Meyer
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment for the defendants, in the Nineteenth District Court, City and County of San Francisco. Wheeler, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Sharpstein, J.:
By the findings of fact, which are conceded to be correct, it appears that on the 5th day of April, 1873, the plaintiff deposited with one Baux of San Francisco, certain jewelry. In about one month thereafter, the plaintiff, being about to leave San Francisco and to go to St. Louis, demanded her jewelry of said Baux, and he pretending that his father had the key to the safe induced her to leave without her jewelry, promising to forward it by express to her at St. Louis, so that it would reach there nearly as soon as she would. In fact, however, he had then pawned and delivered…
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