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Mills v. Gleason

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1862PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. On the eighteenth day of April, 1856, one Gould commenced an action, in the Superior Court of San Francisco, against the present plaintiffs to recover certain personal property, and in pursuance of the provisions of the statute for procuring an immediate delivery of the property made the proper affidavit and delivered to the officer an undertaking, executed by the present defendants, in the sum of five hundred dollars conditioned as…

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Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. On the eighteenth day of April, 1856, one Gould commenced an action, in the Superior Court of San Francisco, against the present plaintiffs to recover certain personal property, and in pursuance of the provisions of the statute for procuring an immediate delivery of the property made the proper affidavit and delivered to the officer an undertaking, executed by the present defendants, in the sum of five hundred dollars conditioned as required in the one hundred and second section of the Practice Act. The property was thereupon taken by the officer from…

1Opinion of the CourtCope, J.

Field, C. J. and Norton, J. concurring.

*279This is a suit upon an undertaking executed by the defendants in pursuance of section ene hundred and two of the Practice Act. The only description of the undertaking in the complaint is, that it corresponds with the provisions of that section, and it is objected that in this respect the complaint is defective. It is claimed that the material portions of the undertaking should have been set forth, either literally or according to their legal effect; and there is no doubt that the mode of statement adopted is not sanctioned by the rules of pleading. A…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Chambers v. WatersCalifornia Supreme Court · 1857
  2. Ginaca v. AtwoodCalifornia Supreme Court · 1857

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Thomas v. IrwinIndiana Supreme Court · 1883
  2. Nahhas v. BrowningCalifornia Supreme Court · 1919
  3. Cox v. SargentColorado Court of Appeals · 1897
  4. Manning v. ManningSupreme Court of Kansas · 1881
  5. Parrott v. ScottMontana Supreme Court · 1887

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