Agard v. Valencia

This is an appeal from a final judgment in favor of the defendants, rendered upon a demurrer to the amended complaint. The action was pending in the District Court for Contra Costa County, which is a portion of the Fifteenth Judicial District—which, also, embraces a portion of the City and County of San Francisco. The order sustaining the demurrer, appears on its face to have been signed by the Judge in San Francisco, and directs the Clerk of the District Court of Contra Costa County to enter it on the minutes. This mode of proceeding is especially authorized, in respect to that county, by a…