Borges
Borges v. Hillman
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hart, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, as sureties upon a bond given to effectuate a stay pending an appeal from an order appointing a receiver made in a certain action wherein the plaintiff here was plaintiff and one Ida J. Dunham was the defendant.
The court sustained the demurrer of the defendants and allowed the plaintiff ten days within which to amend the complaint. The plaintiff declined to amend, and accordingly judgment passed for the defendants. .
The plaintiff brings this appeal here from said judgment.
The facts as stated in the complaint are substantially as follows: The plaintiff here instituted an action in the superior court of Napa County against said Ida J. Dunham, for the purpose of obtaining a judgment adjudging and decreeing that he (said plaintiff) was the owner of a certain tract of land, embracing approximately 170 acres, said land being specifically described in the complaint, and that said Dun-ham “was holding the same, and had been holding said property ever since the 2d day of May, 1908, in trust, for the sole use and benefit of said plaintiff, and for an accounting of the rents and profits derived by her from said land since…