Perry

Appeal from judgment of specific performance of conditional land purchase contract.

For convenience, Alfred W. Perry and Anna Mae Perry, husband and wife, will be referred to herein as plaintiffs or plaintiff, as the case may be, and James H. Bedford and Ruby M. Bedford, husband and wife, will be referred to herein as defendants or defendant, as the ease may be.

Defendants were the owners, since 1942, of a tract of land situated within the city limits of the City of Glendale, consisting of approximately 7 acres. There was a house on the property at the time of purchase which they repaired, moved into, and occupied as a residence. On or about July 27, 1953, the defendants decided to subdivide the 7-acre parcel. Application for subdivision was made by defendant James H. Bed-ford and a tentative subdivision map was filed with the planning department of the City of Glendale which was finally approved and recorded in the offiffice of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County as Tract 19561. According to the subdivision map the acreage was divided into five parcels, designated Lots 1 to 5. Defendants’ house is situated on Lot 1 of the subdivision. In June of 1954 plaintiffs and…