Clavey v. Lord
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tuolumne County, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Vanclief, C.
The first count of the complaint in this action alleges that the decedent, in his lifetime, verbally contracted with the defendant to deliver to the latter a large number of stock cattle, which the defendant was to herd, pasture, feed, and care for, in consideration of which the defendant was to have one half of the increase of said cattle, hut was to return or account to the *415decedent for all the cattle originally delivered, and one half the increase, at the expiration of the contract. The contract did not fix or state the time during which the defendant was to keep the cattle,…
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