Greenwood

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a cross-complaint awarding specific performance of a contract to sell real property.

The appellant filed its complaint tó quiet title to the east 30 feet of lot 836 of plat 3398, recorded in Book 37 of Maps, page 43, Los Angeles records. To this complaint the respondent filed an answer and cross-complaint, alleging that four years prior to the commencement of this action appellant executed a written contract of sale of said lot to the defendant Emery Greenwood for the sum of $635, to be paid in equal monthly installments’ of $6.25; that the defendant Greenwood thereupon entered into possession of the premises and constructed a dwelling-house thereon at a cost of $1,000, and that he performed all of the covenants of said contract on his part. The contract was made a part of the cross-complaint, and among other covenants which it contained was a provision prohibiting the buyer from erecting or maintaining a dwelling-house on the property which would cost less than $1,500, except for temporary purposes, in which event it was necessary to obtain the written consent of the grantor. The contract also provided that it could be assigned only by the…