Garratt

Plaintiffs brought an action to establish and foreclose a vendor’s lien upon certain real property situated in Sonoma County, California. In substance, it was alleged that this property had been conveyed to the defendant Automotive Finance Corporation upon the agreement of said corporation to pay four thousand dollars for the same to the plaintffs; that no part of said purchase price had ever been paid, that the other defendants were successive grantees of this property, without consideration and with knowledge of the facts relating to the unpaid purchase price of the same.

The trial court found the facts to be substantially as alleged and gave judgment for the plaintiffs establishing and foreclosing their vendors’ lien. The defendant B. H. Jones has appealed from this judgment. The only question presented by the record is whether the court was justified by the evidence in finding, in effect, that Jones was not a purchaser in good faith, for value without notice of the equities of the plaintiffs.

Ordinarily, when an attack is made upon the correctness of findings, it is customary for this court to review in its opinion the specific evidence justifying the trial court’s action;…