Stearns

Stearns v. Los Angeles City School District

Good Law
1966 Cal. App. LEXIS 1623·244 Cal. App. 2d 696·53 Cal. Rptr. 482·21 A.L.R. 3d 164
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaSeptember 8, 1966Civ. 22438California19,700 words

Opinion

Opinion

Sims, J.

— Los Angeles City School District and Los Angeles City High School District, defendants and cross-complainants, who assert an interest in the property which is the subject of this action as judgment creditors of Delicien P. Landier and Landier Investment Company, have appealed from a judgment and an amended judgment which decreed that title was vested in the plaintiffs hereinafter noted and that the Districts had no interest in the property, and which denied them relief on their cross-complaint, and, as amended, enjoined the Districts from asserting any claim to the property.

The plaintiff and cross-defendant, Redwood Empire Title Company of Mendocino County, concededly only holds record title for the other two plaintiffs and cross-defendants. Plaintiff and cross-defendant Francis A. Stearns ’ claim to a one-half interest in the property is predicated upon an agreement with Rose Landier Heiner, deceased. The latter’s one-half interest is represented by substituted plaintiff and cross-defendant Jim E. West as executor of her estate. Her acquisition of title is predicated upon a judgment she obtained against Landier and the Company which granted her specific performance of an…

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