Bates v. Howard

The Court.

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court in and for the city and county of San Francisco granting a new trial.

On the twenty-seventh day of August, 1887, the defendant made and executed an agreement in writing, of which the following is a copy:

“ San Francisco, August 27,1887.

“ For and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) to me in hand paid, and the receipt *175of which I hereby acknowledge, I agree to obtain for George Bates, of Berkeley, a deed to a certain tract of land situated in the county of Alameda, township of Brooklyn, state of California,…