Weston
Merchants National Bank v. Weston
Opinion
Lead Opinion
This is an appeal by defendant in an action of unlawful detainer wherein judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff -for the restitution of the possession of a certain apartment house and the cancellation of the lease thereof, and for the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars as rent.
Several grounds are relied upon for a reversal of the judgment.
It is first argued that the act of plaintiff in executing the lease under which defendant went into possession of the premises was ultra vires; that plaintiff being a national bank, it had no authority to execute the character of lease in question. We see no force in this argument. Assuming that the bank was not authorized to make the lease, it does not lie with the plaintiff to raise the point, as the United States alone can be heard on this question. (Camp v. Land, 122 Cal. 167 , [ 54 Pac. 839 ].)
The second objection, that the lease failed to definitely locate the premises, finds no support in the record. The lease generally described the property' as being located on a certain street, and then followed with a specific description of the premises by metes and bounds. Aside from the fact that this description was ample and…