Cramer v. Tittle

Decided February 9, 1887

California Supreme Court · decided 1887-02-09

<p>Constitutional Law—Corporations as Sole Surety—Act or March 12, 1885 — Undertaking on Appeal. —The act of March 12, 1885, providing that a corporation organized under the laws of any of the United States for the purpose of making and guaranteeing bonds and undertakings required by law may be ^accepted as a sole and sufficient surety on such bonds and undertakings, is not in conflict with article 4, section 25, subdivision 3, of the constitution, prohibiting the passage of special laws regulating the practice of courts of justice; and an. undertaking on appeal given in pursuance of the act is valid.</p>

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Decided 1887-02-09

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The Court.

¶1— We are of opinion that the undertaking in this case is valid. The statute is a general law, and not an amendment to the Code of Civil Procedure in the sense of the provision of the constitution referred to. The statute is constitutional.

¶2Motion to dismiss appeal denied.