Case Name: POWHATTEN E. EDMONDSON v. ALAMEDA COUNTY
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1864
Citations: 24 Cal. 348
Docket Number: 
Parties: POWHATTEN E. EDMONDSON v. ALAMEDA COUNTY
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 349–350

Head Matter:
POWHATTEN E. EDMONDSON v. ALAMEDA COUNTY
Briefs ie Supreme Court.&emdash;When a cause is submitted in the Supreme Court, with leave to file briefs within a time fixed, and no briefs or points are filed within the time, the Court will not examine the record, but the judgment will be affirmed.
/ Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, Alameda County.
Defendant recovered judgment in the Court below, and plaintiff appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
IV". Hamilton, for Appellant.
W. W. Grane, Jr., for Respondent.

Opinion:
By the Court, Sawyer, J.
This cause was submitted, without oral argument, on the 4th of February. Each party had ten days in which to file briefs. Eo briefs or points are on file, and there is no assignment of errors in the record. This Court will not perform the duties of counsel; it will not examine a record to see if it can find any errors upon which to reverse a judgment. If the appellant's counsel does not choose, in some form, to call the attention of the Court to the points, provisions of the statute, and the authorities upon which he relies, the judgment willbe affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.