Blumenberg v. Adams
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant, on the 9th day of August, 1870, contracted with the plaintiff to lease from him for thirty six months from the 13th of August, the third story of a building on the southwest corner of Sansome and Pine streets, San Francisco. She executed a written lease. The rent was payable monthly.
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Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant, on the 9th day of August, 1870, contracted with the plaintiff to lease from him for thirty six months from the 13th of August, the third story of a building on the southwest corner of Sansome and Pine streets, San Francisco. She executed a written lease. The rent was payable monthly. On the 5th of April, 1871, there was due on. the lease $588, and this suit was brought to recover the same. The defendant set up in her answer that she was the wife of one Gilbert Y. Adams, who resided at…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The defendant must be regarded as a femme sole when the lease was executed by her. She had resided in this State some two years before then, and previously to her coming to California had been abandoned by her husband who had never been within this State.
Judgment and order affirmed.
Neither Mr. Justice Rhodes nor Mr. Justice Niles expressed an opinion.
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