Pleasants

Pleasants v. Hanson

Good Law
1920 Cal. App. LEXIS 288·48 Cal. App. 626·292 P. 183
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJuly 24, 1920Civ. No. 2139.California5,106 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Hart, J.

Action to have decreed null and void and to set aside a certain deed of conveyance on the grounds that the same was procured from the grantor by the grantee through imposition upon the former of misrepresentation and undue influence. Plaintiff was awarded judgment from which the defendants prosecute this appeal.

The second amended complaint alleges and the court finds: That plaintiff’s intestate, who died on the fifth day of December, 1915, was, on the fifth day of August, 1915', and for many years prior thereto, the owner in fee simple and in the actual and peaceable possession of a certain lot of land (the real property in controversy here), situated in the town of Winters, Yolo County, of the reasonable value of two thousand dollars, and also was the owner and in like possession of another lot of land in said town, of the value of six hundred dollars; that the total value of all the property, real and personal, owned by her on said day was two thousand six hundred dollars; that said Mary J. Hanson was, on the day mentioned, the mother of five living adult children, exclusive of the said Isaac J. Hanson, and that all of said five children were for many years immediately prior…

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