Martin

Martin v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Good Law
29 Cal. App. 499·156 P. 986
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJanuary 28, 1916Civ. No. 1652.California933 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant in an action commenced by the plaintiff to recover a judgment against the defendant for the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, alleged to be due upon an undertaking for the seizure of an automobile in an action for replevin. The case comes before us upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears in brief that on or about April 13,1913, Flora A. Graham and William H. Graham commenced an action in replevin against E. H. Wilson, Eula W. Wilson, and several fictitious defendants for the recovery of the possession of a certain automobile, which at the time of the commencement of said action and for some time previous thereto had been in the possession of the plaintiff in this action, who was served as a fictitious defendant and thus brought into the case. The value of said automobile was stated in said complaint to be one thousand five hundred dollars. A replevin bond was thereupon executed by the defendants in this action in the sum of three thousand dollars, which said bond provided “for the return of the said property to the said defendants (in the former action) if return thereof be adjudged, or for the…

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