Scatena

Scatena v. California Cannery Co.

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115 Cal. 14·1896 Cal. LEXIS 963·46 P. 737
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 7, 1896S. F. No. 337California395 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Searls, J.

Action to recover a balance of eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-seven cents on account of goods, wares, and merchandise sold and delivered to defendant (a corporation) by the plaintiffs as copartners, under the firm name and style of L. Scatena & Co.

Defendant answered denying many of the allegations of the complaint.

*15 It also set up a counterclaim, under which it demanded damages against the plaintiffs, as copartners aforesaid, in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, on account of a breach of a contract entered into by and between plaintiffs and defendant for the delivery of one hundred and fifty tons of fruit at twenty dollars per ton.

Plaintiffs demurred to the cause of action contained in the counterclaim, which demurrer was undisposed of until the cause was on trial, when, as appears by the record, the demurrer was on motion of counsel for defendant sustained.

Thereafter counsel for the defendant offered testimony in support of its counterclaim, which was rejected by the court.

Plaintiff had judgment, from -which and from an order denying its motion for a new trial defendant appeals.

The order of the court sustaining the demurrer to defendant’s…

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