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Hocking V. Title Ins. & Trust Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Aug 1951

Hocking V. Title Ins. & Trust Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

In suit against title insurers by purchaser, brought under title insurance policy, for damages allegedly caused by defective title, since local ordinance simply prescribed certain requirements to be met, purchaser's title was not adversely affected.


People V. Cullen [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jul 1951

People V. Cullen [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Defendant's conviction on two counts of murder was proper, even though the victims' bodies were not found. The elements of the corpus delecti were proved circumstantially or inferentially.


Potter V. Pacific Coast Lumber Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jul 1951

Potter V. Pacific Coast Lumber Co. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Where a seller of lumber cashed checks that were expressly labeled as having been in full settlement of disputed accounts due from the purchaser, an accord and satisfaction occurred, and the seller was estopped to deny the effect of his actions.


In Re Kimler [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jul 1951

In Re Kimler [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Writ of habeas corpus from Missouri court finding that inmate's extradition to California was not warranted did not preclude the subsequent imprisonment of the inmate in California. The determination was not a pardon.


Capitain V. L. A. Wrecking Co., Jesse W. Carter Jul 1951

Capitain V. L. A. Wrecking Co., Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The sellers' notation on the contract and repeated assurances of insurance evidenced that the title and risk of loss did not pass to the buyer until the house was lowered onto the foundation and its roof restored.


Huffman V. Lindquist [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jun 1951

Huffman V. Lindquist [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Nonsuits were properly granted to a doctor and hospital in a malpractice and negligence action by the mother of a deceased son where there was insufficient evidence that actions of the doctor and hospital were the proximate cause of the son's death.


Lee On V. Long [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jun 1951

Lee On V. Long [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The gamblers could not recover money that was used in illegal gambling games from the sheriff and district attorney that was seized by the sheriff.


King V. Mortimer [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jun 1951

King V. Mortimer [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Certificate holders could not recover the difference between the price at which their assignors sold their certificates and the face amount thereof because they failed to show there was any matured claim or debt due at the time they sold them.


State V. Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Jun 1951

State V. Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

State, as owner of a railroad, was not subject to collective bargaining provisions of federal Railway Labor Act and contract reached as a result of collective bargaining between state board and labor union was invalid.


Green V. Brown, Jesse W. Carter Jun 1951

Green V. Brown, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The holder of a life estate in the residence that he and his deceased wife had given to his deceased wife's daughter and her husband had the right to live in the house with his new wife despite the donees' objections.


People Ex Rel. Levin V. County Of Santa Clara, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

People Ex Rel. Levin V. County Of Santa Clara, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A charter that was adopted by a county and approved by the legislature was properly invalidated because the county failed to comply or to substantially comply with the mandatory and prohibitory constitutional procedures for adopting the charter.


Brokaw V. Black-Foxe Military Institute, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Brokaw V. Black-Foxe Military Institute, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A verdict was proper because evidence was sufficient to infer that a college student was acting as an agent of a military school at the time he took the student, and there was substantial evidence to conclude that he negligently operated the car.


Holbrook V. Board Of Education, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Holbrook V. Board Of Education, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A school board's failure to classify its business manager as a full-time permanent employee, in his fourth consecutive year of employment in a position requiring certification, did not prevent him from attaining that status, for tenure purposes.


Simone V. Sabo [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Simone V. Sabo [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

In a patient's malpractice action against his dentist, there was no expert witness testimony that the dentist rendered improper treatment when he removed the patient's impacted tooth and bruised or severed the mandibular nerve.


Rains V. County Of Contra Costa [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Rains V. County Of Contra Costa [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Because new county ordinance concerning appointment of the medical personnel did not effect a repeal that required the approval of voters, it was upheld as valid.


Bryant V. Industrial Acci. Com. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Bryant V. Industrial Acci. Com. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

State workers' compensation commission had no discretion to partly disallow state unemployment department's proven lien for benefits paid to injured worker based on his periods of temporary and permanent disability.


Pasadena V. County Of Los Angeles, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Pasadena V. County Of Los Angeles, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A constitutional provision was not concerned with assessed valuation before or after acquisition by a city, but dealt only with whether or not any improvements were constructed by the city after it acquired the property.


Schumm V. Berg, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Schumm V. Berg, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A contract between a mother and father for the support of an illegitimate child, premised on the mother's promises not to bring a paternity action and to name the child after the father, was enforceable by the minor against the father's estate.


Parker V. Womack [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Parker V. Womack [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The order of a new trial in the injured party's action against the driver was improper because there was no basis for the exercise of discretion when a correct instruction for unavoidable accident was given.


Stein V. Simpson, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Stein V. Simpson, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Property owners were entitled to quiet title to property purchased by creditor after owners went into default on loan secured by property, as creditor's conduct of refusing owner's tender of loan amount and then purchasing property was fraudulent.


Dean V. Kuchel, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

Dean V. Kuchel, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

A state constitutional amendment's express enumeration of legislative powers was not an exclusion of others not named and did not serve to invalidate the legislature's creation of the Wildlife Conservation Board.


People V. Thomas, Jesse W. Carter May 1951

People V. Thomas, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

In murder case, the court did not have the authority to reduce defendant's death sentence to life imprisonment because defendant failed to show prejudicial error with respect to the sentencing order.


In Re Mcgee, Jesse W. Carter Apr 1951

In Re Mcgee, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Legislator's motion to recall remittitur previously issued was granted because clerk mistaken stated that citizen who challenged legislator's election was to recover costs on appeal. Costs were awarded to legislator who was the prevailing party.