Legal Opinion

Parnell v. Hancock

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1874No. 4,376PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. John Gorman obtained a judgment in the Justice’s Court of the City and County of San Francisco, against Black and Durkin. Black appealed to the County Court, and Porter and others became his sureties. The County Court gave judgment against Black and Durkin.

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Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. John Gorman obtained a judgment in the Justice’s Court of the City and County of San Francisco, against Black and Durkin. Black appealed to the County Court, and Porter and others became his sureties. The County Court gave judgment against Black and Durkin. Porter, one of the ‘sureties, was sued on the appeal bond, by Parnell, the assignee of Gorman, and judgment rendered against him in the Justice’s Court, on the 7th day of December, 1870, for one hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-eight cents. On…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:

Gorman had recovered a judgment against Black; the latter thereupon took an appeal to the County Court, Porter becoming one of his sureties, and upon trial had in that Court, judgment had again been rendered against Black. Gorman thereupon assigned to Parnell, the plaintiff here, the judgment and the undertaking on appeal given in the Black case, and the plaintiff, as assignee of Gorman, subsequently recovered judgment in his own name against Porter on the undertaking on appeal. From this judgment Porter, having appealed to the County Court, and the defendants…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Tucker v. ParksSupreme Court of Colorado · 1883
  2. Coburn v. BrooksCalifornia Supreme Court · 1889
  3. Parrott v. KaneMontana Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Stafford v. YergeCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1956
  5. Sharon v. SharonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890

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