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3 Cal. 330

Lambert v. Slade

California Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1853

California Supreme Court · decided 1853-10-15

The declaration in this case was as follows:— “ City and County of San Francisco, ss. “ The above named plaintiff, complaining against the above named defendants, avers, that in or about the month of February, 1852, the defendants were doing business under the style and firm of Slade, Lambert & Co., in this city, and as such firm, they did in said month, draw their draft in writing on the firm of A. A. Lawrence & Co., of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, one day after…

Decided 1853-10-15

Heydenfeldt, Justice,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court. Murray, Chief Justice, concurred.

¶2The declaration cannot maintain the judgment.

¶3The count is for money loaned, but the recital of facts, which it contains, shows that the plaintiff for the money advanced became the purchaser of the draft, and for aught that appears to the contrary, is still the holder of it. The suit should therefore have been upon the draft, which, it seems, is yet an outstanding liability of the defendants. The plaintiff, in order to recover in the present form of his action, must allege and prove that after paying the draft, he cancelled it, and delivered it up to the defendants. Without this the declaration is fatally defective.

¶4Judgment reversed, and cause remanded.

¶5A petition was presented to the court for a rehearing in this case, and it was ordered, December 13, 1853, “ that all proceedings be stayed until the same can be heard and determined on,”

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