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90 Cal. 175

Young v. Aguirre

California Supreme Court

Decided July 10, 1891

California Supreme Court · decided 1891-07-10

<p>Sale of Personal Property — Statute of Frauds — Delivery and Change of Possession — Attachment — Replevin — Finding — Sufficiency of Evidence. — Where the evidence is sufficient to justify a finding that a transfer of personal property attached as the property of the vendor was accompanied hy an immediate delivery to the vendee, and an actual and continued change of possession prior to the attachment, a judgment in favor of the vendee for the recovery of possession of the property from the sheriff who attached it will he affirmed.</p>

Decided 1891-07-10

Vanclief, C.

¶1— The action is for the recovery of the possession of personal property alleged to have been wrongfully taken from the plaintiff by the defendant.

¶2The defendant, being a sheriff, justifies the taking of the property by virtue of a writ of attachment against one Cooke, alleging that the property belonged to Cooke and was subject to the attachment.

¶3Trial by jury, verdict and judgment for plaintiff.

¶4Defendant appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

¶5*176The plaintiff claims the property by purchase from Cooke, made forty days prior to the attachment.

¶6The appellant makes two points: 1. That the evidence does not justify the verdict of the jury, in that it fails to show that the alleged transfer of the property from Cooke to plaintiff was accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession; and 2. That the verdict is against law, for the reason that the jury must have disregarded an instruction of the court, as follows: “If you find that there was no actual, open, unequivocal change of possession, carrying with it the usual marks and indications of ownership, manifested by such outward signs as would render it evident to the world that the possession of Cooke had wholly ceased, and that the claims of the vendee were absolute, then you shall find for the defendant.”

¶7The two points are substantially the same, and present only the single question: Does the evidence justify a finding that the transfer was accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession?

¶8This question should be answered affirmatively; and appellant’s claim to the contrary is not sufficiently plausible to justify a statement of the evidence here.

¶9I think the judgment and order should be affirmed.

¶10Belcher, 0., and Foote, C., concurred.

The Court.

¶11— For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, the judgment and order are affirmed.

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