Deasy

Deasy v. Taylor

Good Law
1918 Cal. App. LEXIS 67·39 Cal. App. 235·178 P. 538
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaDecember 21, 1918Civ. No. 2563.California1,249 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Lennon, J.

This is an appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Taylor, Edward F. Taylor, Joseph E. Taylor, John McKenna, also known as Jas. F. McKenna, Cornelius I. Hark-ins, Catherine Harkins, Matilda Harkins, G. S. Stevenson, as administrator of the estate of Cecelia Stevenson, deceased, and George S. Stevenson, from a judgment of the superior court of Alameda County, adjudging and decreeing certain agree ments and transfers executed by the plaintiff in favor of the defendants to be null and void, and also from the order denying the said defendants’ motion for a new trial.

Appellants’ first contention is that certain findings of the trial court are not sustained by the evidence. We have carefully read the discussion in appellants’ brief upon this subject. That discussion, however, is, upon the whole, a discussion of the weight of the evidence. The objections are to seven different findings. It would serve no useful purpose to go into a discussion of the evidence, and to point out in detail the support for each of these findings separately. The objection to many of them is the same. Suffice it to say that an examination of the record discloses to us that the evidence on these matters is…

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