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Title

Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle log book

Authors

• Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle
• Shafter, Oscar Lovell, 1812-1873
• Heydenfeldt, Solomon, 1816-1890
• Park, T. W. 1823-1882
• Goold, Edmond Louis, 1818-1880
• Dwinelle, John W. 1816-1881

Other related names

• Shafter, James McMillan, 1816-1892
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 030.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977586353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1122543476

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1860-1868

Summary

An oversize volume comprising a case log book of the firm Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle spanning the years from 1860 to 1868. The volume documents the firm's cases and outcomes chronologically. Information contained in the volume documents the firm's representation of both defendants or plaintiffs, type of case, court dates, filings, appeal dates, and court decisions. Written in the margins are the initials of the partnership and opposing counsel and dates. The law firm's variety of cases included contracts, damages, divorces, evictions, foreclosures, land disputes, patent infringement, perjury, probates, real property, and quieting titles. The partnership represented the City of San Francisco in several cases known as City Slip Suits regarding lots centered in the Sacramento area concerning land and water rights. Some highlights of the numerous cases recorded in the volume include collecting damages for a lost trunk from the California Steam Navigation Company; a trademark case involving Veuve Clicquot adn Bernhard Hersch; a patent infringement case involving Samuel B. Morse; a water rights case involving John Bensley and San Francisco Water works; and an estate dispute of Henrietta M. Garwood and the estate of Joseph M. Garwood. The firm's cases were represented in the courts of California, Marin County, San Francisco, the Nevada Territory, and police court. Numbered pages in the volume are stamped 1-639.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2009.05.13.00001).
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--California--History--19th century
• Law firms--California--History--19th century--Sources
• Lawyers--California--History--!9th century
• Lawyers
• History
• Law firms
• Jews
• California

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Logs (records)
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Sources

Licenses

• Text

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