Ferrea

Ferrea v. Tubbs

Good Law
125 Cal. 687·1899 Cal. LEXIS 926·58 P. 308
Supreme Court of CaliforniaSeptember 8, 1899S. F. No. 1763California1,601 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Garoutte, J.

Plaintiff in an action for damages recovered a judgment of four thousand eight hundred dollars. He appealed from this judgment, and also from an order refusing his motion for a new trial. Pending the appeal to this court defendants tendered him the full amount of the judgment, with all costs, and interest to that date. This tender was refused. Subsequently upon appeal the judgment and order denying a new trial were affirmed. Upon the return of the remittitur to the superior court, defendants asked for an order that the judgment be satisfied conditionally upon the payment into court of the amount of the tender; and at the same time again tendered to plaintiff the aforesaid amount, and paid the same into court. Whereupon an order was made satisfying the judgment. The present appeal is prosecuted from that order, the real question being, Did the tender made to plaintiff by defendants pending his appeal to this court stop the running of interest upon the judgment from which his appeal was taken?

We see no force in the contention that the tender should have been made to plaintiff’s attorneys rather than to plaintiff him *690 self. While it may he assumed that the attorney has sole…

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