Woodside

Woodside v. Tynan

Good Law
1897 Cal. LEXIS 958·5 Cal. Unrep. 807·50 P. 424
Supreme Court of CaliforniaSeptember 30, 1897Sac. No. 323California238 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Upon the former appeal in this case (Woodside v. Hewel, 109 Cal. 481 , 42 Pac. 152 ) the judgment and order denying a new trial were reversed upon the ground that the evidence failed to justify the findings of the court. Upon the next trial, the superior court, at the close of the plaintiffs’ case, granted the motion of the defendant for a nonsuit, and entered a judgment dismissing the complaint. Prom this judgment and an order denying a new trial the plaintiffs appeal.

The plaintiffs offered at the trial the same evidence which was given at the former trial, and, in addition thereto, certain testimony of the defendant; but the evidence presented in'the record, is substantially the same as that presented upon the former appeal, and under the principles declared on that appeal the court properly held that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a cause of action against the defendant. In their brief herein the appellants attempt to show that the former opinion and judgment of this court was incorrect, presenting in great part the same arguments which were presented upon that appeal; but, that decision having become the law of the ease, it was properly observed by the superior…

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