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· 4/28/1889

Donnelly v. Hufschmidt

Citations

  • 79 Cal. 74
  • 21 P. 546
  • 1889 Cal. LEXIS 673

Syllabus

<p>Measure op Damages — Expenses Incurred but not Paid. —In an action for personal injuries occasioned by the negligence of the defendant, the plaintiff is entitled to recover the amount incurred for nurse hire, medicines, and physician’s services, although the same has not been actually paid.</p> <p>Negligence — Repairing Lodging-house — Obstructing Pathway — Liability por Injury to Lodger. — A person engaged in making repairs in a lodging-house is guilty of negligence in leaving his working materials over night in a pathway connected with the house, in such a manner as to obstruct its use by the occupants of the house; and is liable to a lodger for personal injuries occasioned to him by reason of such negligence.</p>

How courts have described this case

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  • “a person who claims title by virtue of adverse possession under color of title must have actual notice of any alleged fraud before that fraud will defeat his adverse possession claim”

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Judges: McFarland, Thornton

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