Seehorn v. Big Meadows & Bodie Wagon Road Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff and from an order denying a new trial in the Superior Court of the County of Mono. Briggs, J. The following extract from the statement on motion for a new trial is inserted in order to show the facts of the case: At the opening of the Court on the morning of seventh day of March, A. D. 1880, the defendant appearing by its attorneys, T. W. W. Davies and Frank Owen, and the plaintiff by his attorneys, Messrs.
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Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff and from an order denying a new trial in the Superior Court of the County of Mono. Briggs, J. The following extract from the statement on motion for a new trial is inserted in order to show the facts of the case: At the opening of the Court on the morning of seventh day of March, A. D. 1880, the defendant appearing by its attorneys, T. W. W. Davies and Frank Owen, and the plaintiff by his attorneys, Messrs. Reddy, Gorham, and Parker, (a jury having been regularly impaneled to try the above entitled cause on the afternoon of the previous day,) the…
1Opinion of the Court
Morrison, C. J.:
The plaintiff brought this action in the late District Court of Mono County to recover damages for injuries sustained by him through the alleged carelessness of an employee of the defendant. The case was set down for trial on the sixth day of April, 1880, and on that day the plaintiff appeared by his attorneys and the defendant by Frank Owens, one of its attorneys, and the parties proceeded to impanel a jury to try the case. The Court then adjourned until the following day. At the opening of the Court on the morning of the seventh day of April, the defendant, by its counsel,…
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