Becker

Becker v. Feigenbaum

Good Law
1896 Cal. LEXIS 1092·5 Cal. Unrep. 408·45 P. 837
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJuly 31, 1896S. F. No. 103California331 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Britt, J.

It is alleged by plaintiff that she placed in the hands of defendant, as her agent, a sum of money, to be loaned on security, and that he converted a large part of it to his own use. She had a verdict and judgment for the amount thus converted. Defendant denied the agency, and resisted the action on the ground, alleged among others, that an account had been stated between the parties, by which a sum was found due to plaintiff much less than that now demanded by her. At the trial an exception was taken to the refusal of the court “to give the two instructions in reference to account stated asked for by the defendant.” It is his main contention here that such refusal was error. It is admitted that the contents of those instructions in no manner appear in the record. Counsel has suggested no means by which we may divine their import, and our own ingenuity has been unequal to the difficulty. We discover, therefore, no error in the action of the court. It is not clear that appellant means to argue that the verdict was unsustained by the evidence. Plaintiff was indebted to defendant, and he attempted to apply part of the money in question upon such indebtedness. Of course, he had no…

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