Holland

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover $11,500 which he claims Marie Bruton Teeter was holding in trust for him. The plaintiff claims that he lived with Mrs. Teeter for some five years before her death, although they were never married, and that in September, 1927, he handed her $11,500 to keep for him. For some considerable time before her death Mrs. Teeter was running three hotels in Los Angeles. She went to a hospital for an Speration in April, 1928, and died a few days later. Prior to going to the hospital she assigned certain insurance policies to the plaintiff, made her will, and purchased a cashier’s check for $8000 at the Bank of Italy, which was made payable to the plaintiff or to herself, which check was found after her death in her safety deposit box in that bank, to which box the plaintiff had no access. After the defendant was appointed executor of her last will the plaintiff filed his claim against the estate for $11,500 for money loaned to the deceased in her lifetime. The claim having been rejected, this action was filed. The complaint set up a first cause of action for $11,500 loaned to Marie Bruton Teeter at her special instance and request, and a second…