Vance

Appeal on the judgment-roll from a judgment rendered against defendant upon a stipulation of the facts, defendant’s sole contention being that the facts stipulated do not support the judgment.

For the purpose of securing the location of a federal building upon certain lots of land in the city of Los Angeles, bounded by Main, Temple and New High streets, and consisting of two hundred and ninety-three feet frontage on Main street, extending through to New High street, Silas A. Yance, defendant’s testator, with others, signed an agreement which, after reciting that they would be mutually benefited by the location of such building upon said lands, and that Frank P. Flint, Joseph Mesmer and A. C. Harper had undertaken to procure the conveyance of said property to the United States government free of all encumbrances, in consideration of the sum of one dollar and the construction thereon by said United States government of a federal building, and also reciting that the sum of $205,000 would be required to purchase said property, contracted as follows: “We, the undersigned, in consideration of the benefits resulting from the location of a federal building upon said property, and for…