Dalton

Dalton v. Chapman

Good Law
121 Cal. App. 707·1932 Cal. App. LEXIS 1227·9 P.2d 598
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 18, 1932Docket No. 4511.California1,369 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Plummer, J.

Plaintiff had judgment against the defendant in the sum of $430. From this judgment the defendant appeals.

Three hundred and thirty dollars of said judgment represents the value of certain sows taken by the defendant, found by the court to belong to the plaintiff, and $100 of said judgment represents the damages caused the plaintiff by the act of the defendant just stated.

The record in this case shows the following state of facts:

That on or about the twenty-third day of January, 1930, Mrs. J. J. Bast, J. H. Ware and Bessie B. Ware executed and delivered to A. B. Jackson a chattel mortgage covering the following described property, to wit: Sixty head of Poland-China hogs, some marked with the earmark “V”, and not situate upon the ranch of Mr, and Mrs. J. H. Ware in Browns Valley, Tuba County, California. This mortgage was given to secure the payment of the sum of $167.42, with an advance clause therein not to exceed $500 in addition to the sum just mentioned. No action was brought to foreclose the mortgage. Thereafter, and in the month of August, 1930, A. B. Jackson commenced a claim and delivery action against Mrs. J. J. Bast, J. H. Ware and Bessie B. Ware, and pursuant to…

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