Tarpy v. Shepherd
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, Santa Cruz County. > Plaintiff recovered judgment in the Court below, and defendant appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of thé Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Shafter, J.:
¡Replevin for a billiard table. The plaintiff having introduced evidence, without objection, to the effect that the table was worth five hundred dollars in gold coin, proposed and offered to prove its value in legal tender notes. The defendant objected to the testimony on the ground that it was incompetent and inadmissible for the plaintiff to prove the value in legal tenders after proof of the value in gold coin. The objection was overruled, and the witness testified that the table was worth twelve or thirteen hundred dollars in greenbacks.
Conceding the testimony to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Spencer v. PrindleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
3Cited by1 opinion
- Poett v. StearnsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1866