Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 50Bancroft-Whitney, 1876 |
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... motion . The answer , as it stood , denied any indebtedness on the lease . The case was called for trial on the 3d of October , 1873. The defendant objected to a jury trial on the ground that no demand for a jury had been made by the ...
... motion . The answer , as it stood , denied any indebtedness on the lease . The case was called for trial on the 3d of October , 1873. The defendant objected to a jury trial on the ground that no demand for a jury had been made by the ...
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... motion to strike out portions of defendant's amended answer , reversed , and cause remanded with direc- tion to County Court to deny the plaintiff's motion to strike out portions of the amended answer . Mr. Chief Justice WALLACE did not ...
... motion to strike out portions of defendant's amended answer , reversed , and cause remanded with direc- tion to County Court to deny the plaintiff's motion to strike out portions of the amended answer . Mr. Chief Justice WALLACE did not ...
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... motion , and the plaintiff appealed from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial . Parker & Roche , for the Appellant . We submit that the case of Dorland v . McGlynn ( 47 Cal . 47 ) , controls this case . There is no ...
... motion , and the plaintiff appealed from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial . Parker & Roche , for the Appellant . We submit that the case of Dorland v . McGlynn ( 47 Cal . 47 ) , controls this case . There is no ...
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... motion of A. B. Hotchkiss , Esquire , District At- torney , it is ordered that the two ( 2 ) cases of the People v . Locke , be dismissed , and that judgment for costs , herein taxed at forty dollars , be entered against the prosecuting ...
... motion of A. B. Hotchkiss , Esquire , District At- torney , it is ordered that the two ( 2 ) cases of the People v . Locke , be dismissed , and that judgment for costs , herein taxed at forty dollars , be entered against the prosecuting ...
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... motion to dis- miss the action for want of prosecution . The motion came up for hearing on the 30th day of May , 1873. The motion was made on the papers and an affidavit of the defendant's attorney , that the plaintiff had taken no ...
... motion to dis- miss the action for want of prosecution . The motion came up for hearing on the 30th day of May , 1873. The motion was made on the papers and an affidavit of the defendant's attorney , that the plaintiff had taken no ...
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Page 287 - ... if made by a person having at the time the possession or control of the property, and not accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things transferred, to be fraudulent, and therefore void, against those who are his creditors while he remains in possession...
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Page 552 - The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, cannot exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other case, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint and embraced within the issue.
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