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45 Cal. 76

Brown v. Johnson

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1872

California Supreme Court · decided 1872-07-01

Replevin for six horses mares and colts, four hundred fence posts, two plows, one reaper, three thousand pickets, and one cultivator. The complaint prayed for judgment for possession, and for five hundred and sixty dollars, the value thereof, and five hundred dollars damages. The defendant justified as Constable under a writ of attachment issued in a Justices’ Court at the suit of Conway & Co. against William C. Chapman.

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Decided 1872-07-01

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Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1945

1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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By the Court:

¶1If at the trial of this action (replevin) it had distinctly ap-. peared that the personal property in controversy- had been hopelessly lost or had been destroyed, so that a judgment for its delivery would be necessarily unavailing, a failure to render judgment for its possession (under Section 200 of the Practice Act) would, at most, be but a technical error or omission,■ and one for which we would not reverse the judgment. And in support of such judgment, where, as here, the record discloses nothing on the -point, we will intend that the facts actually appearing below were such as to warrant its rendition. •

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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