Ebner

Ebner v. West Hollywood Transfer Co.

Good Law
1919 Cal. App. LEXIS 301·45 Cal. App. 186·187 P. 114
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaDecember 20, 1919Civ. No. 3147.California1,770 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Langdon, J.

This is an appeal by the defendants, West Hollywood Transfer Company and P. Steffenson, from a judgment against them in an action to recover upon three promissory notes of the defendant corporation, and the guaranties by the individual defendants. The defendant G. U. Barek agreed, in open court, that judgment might be entered against him as such guarantor.

The principal objection of the appellants is that the notes upon which suit was brought were not admitted in evidence by the trial court, and that as the suit was upon the notes, and the guaranties written upon the backs thereof, there was nothing before the court upon which its judgment could be based. It appears from the record that the notes were offered several times by the plaintiff; they were marked for identification, but no ruling was made thereon and the notes were not admitted in evidence during the trial of the case. It is argued by the respondent that the notes should have been admitted in evidence and that the court, at the time it arrived at its conclusion, so decided and admitted the notes in evidence at the time it gave judgment for the plaintiff.

It appears from the record that the notes upon which the…

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