California Supreme Court August 27, 1912, L.A. No. 2913. (Semi-Tropic Spiritualists' Ass'n v. Johnson)

MELVIN, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered against him and from an order denying his motion for a new

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trial. The cause was tried before a referee and his findings were adopted by the court. By stipulation the transcript of the testimony taken before the court commissioner was used as a statement of the case on defendant’s motion for a new trial.