49 Cal. 308
Decided July 1, 1874
California Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01
The defendant, on the 9th day of August, 1870, contracted with the plaintiff to lease from him for thirty six months from the 13th of August, the third story of a building on the southwest corner of Sansome and Pine streets, San Francisco. She executed a written lease. The rent was payable monthly. On the 5th of April, 1871, there was due on. the lease $588, and this suit was brought to recover the same.
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¶1The defendant must be regarded as a femme sole when the lease was executed by her. She had resided in this State some two years before then, and previously to her coming to California had been abandoned by her husband who had never been within this State.
¶2Judgment and order affirmed.
¶3Neither Mr. Justice Rhodes nor Mr. Justice Niles expressed an opinion.