Bradley

This is an appeal from an amended judgment in an action in ejectment and from an order refusing to vacate such judgment.

A brief statement of the facts involved will be conducive to a clearer understanding of the three appeals now pending in this court between these parties in regard to certain property which is the subject of their contention.

Prior to the tenth day of November, 1906, and to the com'mencement of any of the actions (three in number) pending between these parties, plaintiff’s assignor, Richard Bradley, was the owner of two pieces of real property situated in San Francisco. On the date mentioned Bradley made a conveyance of one of these parcels—designated in the record as the Gough Street property—to the defendant, who was at that time single and bore the name of Mrs. E. R. Buxton. The conveyance was in trust for certain purposes, and the property was to be reconveyed to Bradley upon demand. Thereafter, desiring to procure a decree establishing title to these two pieces of property under the so-called McEnerney Act, and appreciating that it would be more economical to attain this object by one action rather than two, Bradley conveyed to the defendant the parcel of…