High
High v. Bank of Commerce
Opinion
lead Opinion
McFarland, J.
Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendant, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, '
*527 Plaintiff having a money judgment against Comstock & Trotsche, copartners, and having procured an execution to be issued, and claiming that the defendant was indebted to Comstock & Trotsche, proceeded under section 720 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and procured an order allowing him to sue the defendant, and thereupon he commenced this action. The court found that at the time the said proceeding was instituted, defendant was not indebted to said copartners, or either of them, and did not have any money or property belonging to them. Assuming'that the transcript shows upon what grounds the motion for a new trial was made or denied, still the only point made by appellant is that the findings are not sustained by the evidence. The evidence is very meager; and we would not be warranted in holding that the court below should have found some indebtedness from respondent to the said copartners, or that there was money of the latter in the hands of the former. There is some evidence tending to show that at a time prior to the proceedings supplementary to execution there…