{"id":1361,"date":"2017-04-09T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2017-04-09T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T04:10:54","slug":"a-legal-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/09\/a-legal-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legal Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Sacramento Daily Union,  2 November 1857<\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Legal Curiosity. \u2014 In a complaint filed in one of the San Francisco Courts, in a suit brought to recover damages from Wells, Fargo &#038; Co., for injury received by a parcel of merchandise in transit from New York, there occurs a rare curiosity in the shape of special pleading. The complaint avers that &#8221; the said merchandise became and is assaulted, injured and damaged,&#8221; and &#8221; was jammed, rammed, crammed and damned with great violence against other merchandise,&#8221; by reason of which it &#8221; became wetted, fractured and broken,&#8221; to the great damage of the plaintiffs!<br \/>\nRather strong put,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Daily Union, 2 November 1857 A Legal Curiosity. \u2014 In a complaint filed in one of the San Francisco Courts, in a suit brought to recover damages from Wells, Fargo &#038; Co., for injury received by a parcel of merchandise in transit from New York, there occurs a rare curiosity in the shape of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/09\/a-legal-curiosity\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[52,455,979,1488,1853],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1361","7":"format-standard","8":"category-california-history","9":"category-california-newspaper-archive","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"post_tag-52","12":"post_tag-complaint","13":"post_tag-legal-curiosity","14":"post_tag-san-francisco","15":"post_tag-wells-fargo-co"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}