Harmon v. San Francisco & San Rafael Railroad

Good Law
1890 Cal. LEXIS 1156·3 Cal. Unrep. 256·23 P. 1024
Supreme Court of CaliforniaMay 3, 1890No. 12,017California925 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Paterson, J.

This cause was heard in department 1, and the judgment and order were affirmed October 4, 1889, on the authority of Gordon Hardware Co. v. Railroad Co., ante, p. 140, 22 Pac. 406 (filed on that day). By consent of counsel for the respective parties the court below, before the trial of either cause, made an order that the two actions be consolidated. When the cases were considered by this court it was assumed that the record in this ease was substantially the same as the record in No. 12,030; but our attention was called to the fact in the petition for a hearing before the court in bank, and at the argument, that this assumption was not correct. The record in this case differs from the other in two material respects: In this case the evidence shows that “the work on the contract was completed on June 2, 3884.” There is nothing in this record to the contrary, and we cannot, as claimed by respondent, look at any evidence in the other record to explain or contradict this testimony. Second. The description of the materials furnished in the other case was “nails, spikes, iron, steel, picks, shovels, and other like material.” In this "case the materials furnished are described as…

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