Pimental v. City of San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. This is an action to recover the sum of $7,900 alleged to have been received from the plaintiff by the city of San Francisco upon an alleged sale of a parcel of certain property, known as the city slip property, situated within the limits of the said city—$1,975 on the twenty-seventh of December, 1853, $3,950 on the twenty-seventh of February, 1854, and $1,975 on the twenty-seventh of April, 1854. The complaint was filed on the…
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Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. This is an action to recover the sum of $7,900 alleged to have been received from the plaintiff by the city of San Francisco upon an alleged sale of a parcel of certain property, known as the city slip property, situated within the limits of the said city—$1,975 on the twenty-seventh of December, 1853, $3,950 on the twenty-seventh of February, 1854, and $1,975 on the twenty-seventh of April, 1854. The complaint was filed on the twenty-first of April, 1856, and the summons was issued on the twenty-fourth of December, 1860. The facts of the case are…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Cope, J. and Norton, J. concurring.
This is one of the numerous cases which have grown out of the attempted sale by the authorities of the city of San Francisco, in December, 1853, of the property known as the City Slip Property. The general facts in all of them upon which the liability of the city is asserted, lie within a narrow compass; but the defenses interposed have varied with the different cases, and have not always been consistent with each other. In some of the cases, the entire transactions giving rise to or connected with the alleged sale, including the receipt and appropriation of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Argenti v. City of San FranciscoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1860
- Grogan v. City of San FranciscoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1861
- Shawl v. His CreditorsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1862
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- Kissinger v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1958
- Allen v. Intendant & Councilmen of LaFayetteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Crowe v. BoyleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1920
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