¶1delivered the opinion of the Court—Field, J., concurring.
¶2The judgment in this case—the principle being the same as that in the case of Ritter v. Patch—is reversed, and bill dismissed, on the authority of that case.
12 Cal. 299
Decided January 15, 1859
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1859-01-15
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1885
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.