Bancroft v. San Francisco Tool Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from Superior Court, City and County of San Francisco; Charles W. Slack, Judge. Action by H. H. Bancroft against the San Francisco Tool Company. There was a judgment for defendant for costs, and from an order denying a new trial plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SEARLS, C.
This is an action to recover damages from the corporation defendant, alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of the fall of a passenger elevator erected by said defendant for plaintiff in the History Building, Market street, San Francisco. Defendant, among other defenses to the action, set up the bar of the statute of limitations as found in subdivision 1 of section 339 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that “an action upon a contract, obligation or liability, not founded on instrument in writing, or founded upon an instrument of writing executed out of…
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