Murray

Murray v. Guarantee Trust & Savings Bank

Good Law
1926 Cal. App. LEXIS 183·79 Cal. App. 69·248 P. 1039
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJuly 30, 1926Docket No. 5203.California2,324 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Cashin, J.

An action by respondent Lucy E. W. Murray, the surviving wife of John E. Murray, to establish her claim to certain real property.

The complaint, which consists of two counts, alleges a cause of action to quiet title and the execution by John E. Murray of a deed conveying the property to respondent, and the loss of the deed. Appellants Emmet Y. Murray and Jane Doe Murray, his wife, were joined as defendants with Guarantee Trust & Savings Bank, a corporation, as executor of the last will and testament of John E. Murray, deceased, and Security Trust & Savings Bank, a corporation, the successor to the business of the corporation first named. Judgment was entered for respondent, quieting her title to two of the parcels of real property which are hereinafter described, together with a personal judgment against the corporations named for the amounts received by the latter as the income therefrom. The defendants Murray have appealed, the appeal being presented on the judgment-roll and a bill of exceptions.

Appellants urge as grounds for reversal rulings of the trial court in admitting evidence over objection, an insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the findings, laches on the part…

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