Viault

Saturday Morning Musical Club v. Viault

Good Law
111 Cal. App. 562·1931 Cal. App. LEXIS 1172·295 P. 852
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaFebruary 4, 1931Docket No. 6361.California445 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

York, J.

The plaintiff brought action for judgment on the following subscription agreement:

General and special demurrers to the complaint and amended complaint were sustained, and upon motion for judgment on the pleadings made by defendant, the action was dismissed by the court. Plaintiff prosecutes this appeal from such judgment of dismissal.

Defendant’s agreement is for stock in the Saturday Morning Musical Club building fund and not for stock of the Saturday Morning Musical Club, á corporation, the entity seeking to enforce the agreement. Without any pleading alleging the assignment of the interest of the said building fund to the Saturday Morning Musical Club, a corporation, we are of the opinion that the demurrers were properly sustained and said cause properly dismissed. There is no allegation in the pleadings showing whether or not the said building fund was ever incorporated. It may have been incorporated and merged with the plaintiff, but there is no such allegation.

The judgment of dismissal is affirmed.

Concurring Opinion

Conrey, J.

I concur in the judgment. The alleged contract, as signed by the defendant, fails to name any payee to whom the promised money was to be paid. If, in fact, it was the intention of the parties that the payments should be made to the plaintiff, and if the shares of stock purchased were shares of the plaintiff corporation, and if it was the intention of the parties that these terms should be contained in the written agreement, and if by mutual mistake, said terms of agreement were omitted from the writing, the plaintiff by appropriate allegations might have laid a foundation for a decree reforming the contract, so as to make it capable of enforcement. But this was not done. The action is to recover upon the contract as written. Since the contract, as written, contains no agreement to pay to the plaintiff, and does not show a purchase of shares of stock in plaintiff corporation or in any corporation or association, it is not an enforceable contract. Moreover, in relation to these same matters, the complaint was uncertain in several particulars which were covered by the demurrer. I, therefore, agree that there was no error in the order sustaining the demurrer to the amended complaint,…

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