A depositary must give prompt notice to the person for whose benefit the deposit was made, of any proceedings taken adversely to his interest in the thing deposited, which may tend to excuse the depositary from delivering the thing to him.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1825
Obligations of the Depositary
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Wetherly v. Straus (1892)
Most recently applied in 161 F. Supp. 367 - Pickford Corp. v. De-Luxe Laboratories, Inc. (April 1958)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.