Lobree

This is an appeal by the Goodyear Redwood Company, one of the defendants, from a judgment rendered against it and its codefendant, the L. E. White Lumber Company. The plaintiff is one of a number of settlers who relinquished to the L. E. White Lumber Company certain homestead rights and claims to timber lands in Mendocino County. The complaint is in five counts, each of which states a cause of action as against the defendants’ general demurrer. In the first, plaintiff seeks to recover upon an alleged oral agreement made by the defendant White Company to pay him $3,750, for a homestead relinquishment, and for services rendered in connection with securing like relinquishments from other settlers, which obligation, it is alleged, the appellant assumed and agreed t*o pay. The other four counts are based upon assignments to plaintiff by other settlers of similar causes of action against the defendant. The trial court found the allegations of the various counts of the complaint to be true, and entered the judgment in favor of plaintiff, from which this appeal is taken.

The alleged insufficiency of the evidence to support the trial court’s finding, that for a valuable consideration the…