Klebora

Klebora v. Klebora

Caution
118 Cal. App. 613·1931 Cal. App. LEXIS 375·5 P.2d 965
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 27, 1931Docket No. 7966.California4,268 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Goodell, J.

The appellant sued to quiet title to an undivided half interest in a piece of improved real estate in San Francisco. The respondent Charles J. Klebora answered asserting his ownership of an undivided three-quarters of the whole, and the respondent Martha Baugh answered claiming an undivided quarter of the whole. Judgment went for said respondents decreeing their interest to be vested in the proportions they claimed, and consequently that the appellant had no interest. From that judgment this appeal is taken.

The present litigation is the outgrowth of a contested divorce case brought by the appellant Vera Klebora against her husband Joseph Klebora, wherein the husband prevailed on his cross-complaint. The interlocutory decree therein awarded the property here involved to the husband, the court characterizing it as community property. There was no appeal from the interlocutory decree and the husband died within six months after its entry. About six months after his death, the appellant brought this suit to quiet her title against Charles J. Klebora and Martha Baugh who are children of her deceased husband by a former marriage, to whom conveyances of the property had been made by…

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