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Ledley vs. Hays, Sheriff, &c. In an action against a sheriff for seizing under execution property belonging to a person other than the judgment debtor...

Kelly et al. vs. Cunningham et al. An action to recover damages for collision cannot be sustained where the injury- of which the plaintiff complains h...

Middleton et al. vs. Ballingall et al. Where the defendants stipulated to sell to the plaintiffs certain merchandise. “ shipped” from Batavia, in the ...

Panaud vs. Jones. Where a last will and testament was executed, on the 19th day of Sept. 1840, by a Mexican citizen of California, before the judge (J...

Gunter et al. vs. Geary et al. If a party desires to bring the rulings of the district judge, during the progress of a trial under review, he must eit...

Harman vs. Harman. By the Mexican law, marriage lawfully contracted in the face of the Catholic church and between members thereof, cannot be dissolve...

Hart vs. Spalding. In an action against a common carrier for the non-delivery of goods, the value thereof at the port of discharge is the proper measu...

In the Matter of Holdforth, on Habeas Corpus. In a suit to recover money received by a person as agent, he cannot be arrested without showing some fra...

Seaman vs. Mariani. Action, for balance of an account. Defense, payment by a promissory note. Replication, that plaintiff was induced to receive the n...

Smith vs. Chichester. A judgment rendered by a district court after the time appointed by law for its adjournment is invalid, and will be reversed on ...

Dunbar vs. The Alcalde and Ayuntamiento of San Francisco. A municipal corporation is not liable for the destruction of a building, in pursuance of the...

Walker vs. Hauss-Hijo et al. A material man, who has furnished lumber for the erection of a building, has no lien thereon for the price of the materia...

Soulé vs. Hayward. Section 74 of the Practice Act, which provides for the arrest of a debtor in certain cases, does not apply in the case of one partn...

Heath et al. vs. Lent, Administrator, &c. et al. In an action on a bond gives on suing out an attachment against the property of a debtor, who was a m...

Moore vs. Reynolds et al. Where A. was indebted to B., to secure which indebtedness the latter held the promissory notes of the former, and it was agr...

McQueen vs. The Ship Russell. Where a bond was given in pursuance of section 8 of the act, passed April 10, 1850, providing for the collection of dema...

The City of San Francisco vs. Clark et al. Whether driving piles in Front street, in the city of San Francisco, (the street being laid out over the wa...

Osborne et al. vs. Elliott et al. Where promises are dependent, neither party can maintain an action against the other, without showing performance, o...

De Boom vs. Priestly et al. Where a demurrer to the complaint is put in, and overruled, and the defendant then answers, the answer is a waiver of the ...

The People ex rel. Stephen J. Field et al. vs. William R. Turner, Judge of the Eighth Judicial District. Where a person has been admitted as an attorn...