"TRANSCRIPTS & SUPPLEMENTAL POINTS AND AUTHORITIES" of the SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. (18 issues bound in one volume). by Gage, Henry Tifft (1852-1924); and Hazard, Henry T. (1844-1921) - [1879].

Los Angeles, California: Gould's Commercial Print; and Mirror Printing, 1879-1880. [1879]., [1879].. Fair. CALIFORNIA COURT REPORTS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF HENRY T. HAZARD & HENRY GAGE, SEVERAL OF WHICH ARE SIGNED BY THEM - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Eighteen publications in one volume, disbound lacking the covers and the spine. Each of these "Transcripts" and "Supplemental Points" are authored by the respective attorneys for the Appellants or Defendants, frequently H.T. Hazard.

The bound volume consists of:

1. "In the Supreme Court of the State of California, Geo. Hinds, Plaintiff and Respondent. vs. D.W. Gage, Defendant and Appellant. Supplemental Points and Authorities of Appellant. H.T. Hazard, Attorney for Appellant." (1879). Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 6. Signed twice in ink by "H.T. Gage" on the title page. The left edge of the cover sheet is damaged, likely from attempts to reattach the missing covers. The cover sheet is stained with a tiny hole to the bottom corner and the bottom third of the pages are heavily dampstained.

2. "... George Hinds, Respondent. vs. D.W. Gage, et als., Appellant." Pages 1 through 9. Identified as "Respectfully submitted, Thom & Stephens, Attorneys for Respondent" on the last page. 6 lines of annotations are penciled on page 5. There is light dampstaining to the bottom edge of the first page.

3. "... George Hinds, Plaintiff and Respondent. vs. D.W. Gage, et al., Defendants and Appellants. Appellants' Points & Authorities Opposing Respondent's Motion to Dismiss Appeal. H.T. Hazard, S.M. White, & H.T. Gage, Attorneys for Appellants." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 11. Signed in ink by Henry T. Gage on the front cover. The first page of the subsequent item "The Pacific Coast Journal" is glued to the bottom of the last sheet.

4. Pages [234] through 237 and pages 903 & 904 of the ["Pacific Coast Law Journal: Containing All the Decisions of the Supreme Court of California, and the Important Decisions of the U.S. Circuit and U.S. District Courts for the District of California, and of the U.S. Supreme Court and Higher Courts of Higher States, Volume 6"] as published by W.T. Baggett and Company, 1881. These are the pages referring to the prior and several of the subsequent transcripts. The first page is clipped and mounted onto the last page of the prior transcript, and page 237 is clipped as only a few lines from the top of that page relates to the cases under consideration. As per the "Journal", D.W. Gage and George Hinds were partners in a sheep raising business in Los Angeles. As pasture was turning bad in the county, the flock was moved by D.W. Gage to the county of Inyo where D.W. and Henry T. Gage apparently acted to defraud Hinds out of his interest in the sheep. A convoluted series of financial dealings between the 2 Gages, left them in full ownership of the flock with H.T. Gage now the supposed owner. Hinds pursued his interests and the court eventually ruled against Henry T. and D.W. Gage.

5. "...J.W. Johnson, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. George Wright, Adminstrator of Lucy M. Wright, Defendant and Respondent. Transcript on Appeal. H.T. Hazard, Attorney for Plaintiff and Appellant." (1879). Titled cover sheet and pages 1 through 33, [1-6] and [1-5] with a folding copy of a holograph document penned by Hazard and reproduced by lithography bound in preceding the last five pages. There are few annotations in ink, possibly by the attorney for the plaintiff, H.T. Hazard. He was also the attorney for the Gages. The last 5 pages were once folded before being bound in and the top edge of the document is chipped.

6. "...J.W. Johnson, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. E.W. Squires, Defendant and Respondent. Transcript on Appeal. H.T. Hazard, Attorney for the Plaintiff and Appellant." (1879). Titled cover sheet and pages 1 though 30, and [1-3], with a folding lithograph of the holographic "stipulation" bound in prior to the last 3 pages. There are a few annotations penned in ink by the attorney H.T. Hazard. The top edge of the lithographed "stipulation" leaf is torn with a piece out of the top edge and a short tear to the edge of the bottom fold.

7. "... Francisco Huarte, Plaintiff and Respondent. vs. Juan Goyeneche, et al, Defendants and Applellants. Transcript on Appeal. Henry T. Hazard, Attorney for Defendants and Appellants. S.C. Hubbell & F.P. Ramirez, Attorneys for the Plaintiff and Respondent." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 1 through 43.

8. "...Isidore Danielwitz, Plaintiff. vs. F.P.F. Temple, et al, Defendant. Transcript on Appeal. Henry T. Hazard, Attorney for the Plaintiff and Appellant." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 1 through 13. Signed in ink at the end for A.W. Potts, Los Angeles County Clerk by his deputy.

9. "...Isidore Danielwitz, Plaintiff. vs. F.P.F. Temple, et al, Defendants and Respondents. Apl'ts. Points and Authorities. Henry T. Hazard, Attorney for the Plaintiff and Appellant." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 6.

10. "...Isidore Danielwitz, Plaintiff. vs. F.P.F. Temple, et al, Defendants and Respondents. Respondent's Points and Authorities. A.W. Hutton, Attorney for Respondent G.E. Long." Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 11.

11. "...Thomas Pollard, Plaintiff. vs. G.A. Putnam, Defendant and Appellant. Transcript on Appeal. Henry T. Hazard, Attorney for the Plaintiff and Appellant." (1879). Titled cover sheet and pages 1 through 9.

12. ...Thomas Pollard, Plaintiff and Respondent. vs. G.A. Putnam, Defendant and Appellant. Points and Authorities of Defendant and Applellant. Henry T. Hazard, Attorney for the Plaintiff and Appellant." (1979). Titled cover sheet and pages 2 & 3, plus [2]. The bottom corner of the pages are dampstained.

13. ...Thomas Pollard, Respondent and Plaintiff. vs. G.A. Putnam, Appellant and Defendant. Application to be Heard in Bank and for Rehearing. R.M. Widney, Att'y for Pl'ff and Resp." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 1 through 6. The relevant page from the "Pacific Coast Journal" is tipped in at the front.

14. "...M.J. O'Connor, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. George W. Frasher, W.T. Somes, L.L. Holbrook, Henry McClain, R. Baldwin, S.H. Pitney, Isaac Dodson and Joel G. Brush, Defendants and Respondents. Transcript on Appeal. John D. Bicknell, Attorney for Plaintiff. H.T. Hazard, Attorney for Defendant McClain, ...." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 248. Signed by H.T. Hazard at the top of the cover sheet. There is a small chip to the top of the cover sheet and a long tear to the top edge of the first page. The case was argued in front of Judge Sepulveda.

15. "...M.J. O'Connor, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. George W. Frasher, et al., Defendants and Respondents. Appellant's Points and Authorities. John D. Bicknell, Attorney for Appellant." Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 18. Signed by H.T. Hazard at the top of the cover sheet, with a page of notes that appear to be in Hazard's hand tipped in at the front.

16. "...M.J. O'Connor, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. George W. Frasher, et al., Defendants and Respondents. Respondent's Points and Authorities. Will D. Gould, and James H. Blanchard, Attorneys for Respondents, Frasher, Brush, Dotson and Somes ." (1880). Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 26. Annotations are penciled in the margin of one page.

17. "...M.J. O'Connor, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. George W. Frasher, et al., Defendants and Respondents. Transcript on Appeal. John D. Bicknell, Attorney for Plaintiff ad Appellant. Gould and Blanchard, Attorneys for Defendants and Respondents." Titled cover sheet and pages 3 through 183, with folding & full-page charts and 2 photographically reproduced plans or maps titled "Plat of the Rancho Sausal Redondo" tipped in. This issue is marked "Office Copy" in ink at the top of the cover sheet with profuse pencil and ink markings in the margins as well as marginal annotations also penned in.

18. Pages 1006 through 1010 of the "Pacific Coast Law Journal", reporting on the above case, are tipped in at the end.

The American lawyer, politician and diplomat Henry Tifft Gage (1852-1924) was elected to a single term as the Republican governor of California. He later briefly served as U.S. Minister to Portugal. His nomination for the governorship was orchestrated by the Southern Pacific Railway whose interests he'd represented in the past. Upset by caricatures which depicted him as a puppet of the Railway company, Gage pushed through a censorship bill restricting the press from printing editorial comments about politics and politicians. Gage denied that there was a problem when rats from the ship "Australia" carried the bubonic plague into the city, initiating the third bubonic plague pandemic. He refused to quarantine regions of the city. Newspapers that were aligned with the governor echoed his denials and began an intense defamation campaign against Joseph Kinyoun, the director of the San Francisco Quarantine Station. Kinyoun appealed to the Federal government who found that the plaque was indeed rampant in San Francisco's Chinatown. Gage retaliated against the Federal government preventing their use of the University of California, Berkeley's laboratories to study the outbreak. Gage went so far as to accuse federal authorities of injecting bubonic plague into cadavers to support their stance and pushed through additional censorship bills to prevent newspapers from covering reports of plague infections.

The California pioneer Henry T. Hazard (1844-1921) was a land developer and patent attorney who was elected as mayor of the City of Los Angeles in 1889. As a criminal lawyer after earning his law degree, Hazard received a large lot of land in what was to become the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles as his fee in defending a client accused of murder. Following the 1878 land boom, he shifted his practice to become a land-title and patent attorney and acquired substantial wealth as a result. As city attorney, he compelled the local railroads to give back to the city the land which became Lincoln Park and was responsible for planting thousands of eucalyptus trees in Elysian Park. With George H. Pike, Hazard bought property at Fifth and Olive Streets in Los Angeles and commissioned the architect Charles F. Whitney to erect the auditorium called "Hazard's Pavilion". The pavilion was initially criticized for it's cantilever balconies that eliminated columns and its great bowed roof as many claimed the balconies and galleries were doomed to collapse. They never did. After many years of hosting artistic and dramatic events, the "pavilion" was later replaced by the Philharmonic Auditorium. Hazard Park in Los Angeles was named after him.

The Rancho Sausal Redondo [Round Willow-grove Ranch] was a Mexican land grant located in what became Los Angeles County. The 22,458 acre parcel of land was given to Antonio Ygnacio Avila in 1837 by the Governor of Alta California Juan Alverado. The land covered the area which now includes the Playa Del Rey, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Lawndale, Hermosa Beach, Inglewod, Hawthorne and Redondo Beach. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which followed the Mexican-American War provided that the land grants be honored. Following Avila's death, his heirs were forced to sell the land to Sir Robert Burnett in order to pay probate costs. Sir Robert combined the property with the Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela, which he already owned, to create the Centinela Ranch. Sir Robert initially used the land for sheep and cattle raising and, when he returned to Scotland, leased the land to Daniel Freeman. Freeman increased the stock and planted citrus trees until the 1875 drought decimated the cattle industry. Freeman then turned to dry farming and purchased the land in 1885.