Cook

Diamond Coal Co. v. Cook

Good Law
1900 Cal. LEXIS 1083·6 Cal. Unrep. 446·61 P. 578
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJune 23, 1900L. A. No. 645California2,317 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Chipman, J.

Action to cancel a contract of sale and purchase of land, and for an injunction to prohibit the removal of wood from said land. Certain special issues were submitted to and answered by a jury, but the court set these aside, and made findings of its own, and gave judgment for plaintiff, as prayed for in the complaint. Defendant Welch appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

1. The defendants appeared by demurrer, alleging that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. There is also an attempt to demur for ambiguity, but the statements are not such as to raise an issue of law on this ground. Defendant Cook did not answer and does not appeal. Defendant Welch answered, and the trial seems to have proceeded as though both defendants were in court. So far as appears by the record, the demurrer to the complaint was not passed upon, and it is not shown that defendants called for any ruling upon it, or called the attention of the court to it in any way. Appellant now claims that “the complaint does not state facts.’-’ We presume he means to have us add, “sufficient to constitute a cause of action.” The particular…

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