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13 Cal. 606

Canfield v. Bates

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1859

California Supreme Court · decided 1859-07-01

Forcible entry and detainer. The Justice rendered judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appealed to the County Court, filing with the Justice an instrument, in the following words, to wit: “Know all men by these presents, that we, John Zellers and José Silva, are held and firmly bound, unto John Canfield, in the penal sum of three hundred dollars, well and truly to be paid, firmly by these presents.

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Decided 1859-07-01

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Baldwin, J. delivered the opinion of the Court—

¶1Terry, C. J. concurring.

¶2We think the judgment should be affirmed.

¶31. The bond, if not technically such, was substantially, a compliance with the statute. Taking all of our statutes together, the obvious design was to put an undertaking on the same footing as a bond. This instrument contains words of obligation, and has a scroll, [l. s.] opposite the name of one of the signers. This is enough when the paper is executed by both, who, contemporaneously, verify the instrument by affidavit, as their bond, to make it the deed of both.

¶42. The refusal to grant the amendment was matter of discretion, which we do not think proper to interfere with. There was no affidavit of the materiality of the amendment, nor any other showing that it was important.

¶53. The bond seems to have been approved by the Justice, and

¶6this is sufficient. '

¶7We do not think this a case in which we can review the evidence.

¶8Judgment affirmed.

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