Wray

This appeal, taken to the Second District Court of Appeal from the judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, has been transferred to this court for decision, and is submitted, by stipulation of the parties, on the briefs on file.

The appeal is from a judgment for plaintiffs for the recovery from the defendant Southern California Investment Company the sum of $930.63 by way of contribution for appellant’s share of a liability claimed under joint and several obligation entered into by plaintiffs and defendant. Shortly prior to July 28, 1924, the plaintiffs and defendant were mutually engaged in subdividing and developing certain contiguous tracts of land in the city of Santa Ana, which they owned in severalty, and in order to secure certain street extensions deemed desirable for the subdivision, said plaintiffs and defendant, of date July 28, 1924, negotiated and executed with said M. Nisson and Charlotte L. Nisson, his wife, as parties of the first part, and Newton Wray and Isabel Wray, his wife, Walter Fine and Olive Fine, his wife, J. L. Stephenson and Ida E. Stephenson, his wife, and the Southern California Investment Company, a corporation, of which L. H. Chatterson is…