Porter v. Liscom
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Humboldt County. The complaint in the case of Allen v. Liseom, which was tried anew in the County Court on appeal from a Justice’s Court, contained two counts, one on a promissory note for one hundred dollars and another upon an account for services rendered for eighty dollars. The jury found the following verdict: “ We, the jury, find for the plaintiff one hundred (100) dollar’s on note, and find verdict for defendant on verbal contract.”
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Appeal from the County Court of Humboldt County. The complaint in the case of Allen v. Liseom, which was tried anew in the County Court on appeal from a Justice’s Court, contained two counts, one on a promissory note for one hundred dollars and another upon an account for services rendered for eighty dollars. The jury found the following verdict: “ We, the jury, find for the plaintiff one hundred (100) dollar’s on note, and find verdict for defendant on verbal contract.” On the sixteenth day of April, 1861, judgment was entered on this verdict in favor of plaintiff for two hundred and…
1Opinion of the CourtCrocker, J.
On the sixteenth day of April, 1861, the County Court of Humboldt County, in a case then pending before it, wherein Allen was plaintiff and Liscom was defendant, rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant for principal and costs, amounting in all to two hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-three cents, and in favor of the defendant against the plaintiff for a certain portion of his costs, amounting to two hundred and eight dollars and two cents. On the twenty-fourth day of December, 1861, Allen assigned to one Smiley, “ for thirty dollars or thereabouts, a judgment…
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