Seligman

Seligman v. Armando

Good Law
1892 Cal. LEXIS 680·94 Cal. 314·29 P. 710
Supreme Court of CaliforniaApril 9, 1892No. 14513California491 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Paterson, J.

The appellant relies for a reversal of the judgment upon the insufficiency of the evidence to support the findings. We have read the testimony, and think there is abundant evidence to support all the findings of the court. While it is true the only direct testimony as to the value of the goods taken is that of the defendant, there is sufficient evidence in the statement to support the finding of the court that the property was worth five hundred dollars. Defendant testified that she paid Mrs. Calori $325 for the property, and that the price agreed upon was “a little less than she had paid.” Mrs. Calori, one of the witnesses, testified that the goods in the store, one week before the attachment was levied, were worth about two thousand five hundred dollars; and that at the time of the attachment the stock was worth no more than eight hundred dollars. According to the testimony of the *316 defendant, the goods sold in the ordinary course of business during the week previous to the attachment did not exceed in value the sum of six hundred dollars.

There is enough in the defendant's own testimony to support the finding that she was aware of the fact that Mrs. Calori was insolvent at…

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