Greene

Greene v. Riordan

Good Law
1929 Cal. App. LEXIS 787·97 Cal. App. 462·276 P. 141
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 11, 1929Docket No. 6598.California3,040 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Lucas, J.

In this ease there is pending before the court a motion to affirm the judgment of the lower court by reason of appellant’s alleged failure in his duty to print in his brief or in the supplement thereto all portions of the record necessary to be considered by this court. The motion is denied and the appeal will be heard on its merits.

Plaintiff, George W. Greene, sued on three counts: First, to have an instrument, in form a grant deed, declared a mortgage; second, for a judgment for $33,000 alleged balance due under a contract of sale of real property, and third, for a judgment declaratory of the respective rights and duties of the parties under said contract. By way of cross-complaint defendant, John H. Riordan, sought to quiet title to the lands described in plaintiff’s first cause of action. In its judgment the trial court adjudged the instrument alleged to be a mortgage to be in fact a deed, quieted title of defendant to the lands described in said deed, and decreed that plaintiff take nothing by his action, but otherwise made no declaration of the rights of the parties.

From this judgment plaintiff appeals on four grounds, contending respectively that the judgment quieting…

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