Vance v. Town of Pleasanton

In this case the court below, -in the exercise of a sound discretion, took under advisement the general and special demurrers urged by the plaintiff, town of Pleasanton, against the answer of the defendant, Vance, and thereupon proceeded to a trial of the cause upon, the merits. At the conclusion of the trial, at which the parties were permitted to introduce all evidence offered, the court, “after duly considering the pleadings, the evidence, and the law,” entered a judgment sustaining the general and special demurrers to the answer of the defendant, and in favor of the town against Vance,…