De Saint Germain v. Wind
Washington Territory
Error to the District Court holding terms at Walla Walla. First District. Action to recover the possession of a billiard-table or its value. The opinion states the facts.
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Error to the District Court holding terms at Walla Walla. First District. Action to recover the possession of a billiard-table or its value. The opinion states the facts. The contract referred to therein was as follows:— “ This agreement, made the eighteenth day of October, 1882, between Jacob Strahle & Co., of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, of the first part, and Charles Simpson, of the city and county of Walla Walla, Territory of Washington, of the second part, witnesseth, that the parties of the first part have let and leased unto the party of the second part…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Greene
This is an appeal in the nature of a writ of error to review the decision of the District Court in an action for the recovery of the possession of a billiard-table or the value of it. The cause was tried by the judge without a jury; after all the evidence was in, the judge, on •defendant’s motion, granted a judgment of nonsuit. It appears from the record that one Simpson received possession of the table from plaintiff in error, under and by virtue of a certain written contract between them, consisting of two parts, — a lease so called, and an agreement for sale; and that while the table was…
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