Sayward v. Houghton
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. J. C. B. Hebbard, Judge. The facts are stated in ibe opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Fleet, J.
The court below sustained a demurrer interposed by defendant Houghton to the complaint, and entered judgment dismissing the action, from which plaintiff appeals. The only question involved in the appeal is whether the complaint states a cause of action.
*547The averments of the complaint, so far as material here, are in substance that W. T. Sayward, plaintiff’s intestate, being the owner of three thousand shares of the capital stock of the corporation defendant, the Eiverside Land and Irrigation Company, transferred the same to one Felton, as security for the payment of a certain promissory note,…
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