Witty v. Southern Pac. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern California
TMs was an action at law by George W. Witty against the Southern Pacific Company and Wells, Fargo & Co., to recover a reward for making an arrest. The case was tried to the court without a jurj-
1Opinion of the Court
WELLBORN, District Judge.
Plaintiff sues to recover $5,000 as a reward for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Tulare county, Cal., of one John Sontag, The defenses to the action are as follows: (1) A denial that plaintiff made the arrest of Sontag; (2)-a special plea in bar, that plaintiff was a deputy sheriff of Tulare county, and for that reason cannot recover; (3) another special plea in bar, that plaintiff is estopped from claiming the reward by his declarations, made immediately after the arrest and delivery of Sontag.
The facts of the case are chiefly these: Defendants, in…
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