Welch
Welch v. Alcott
Opinion
lead Opinion
Craig, J.
Appeal by defendants Edward H. Alcott and Title Insurance and Trust Company, a corporation, from judgment after a second trial between the parties following a reversal by the supreme court and order remanding “for a new trial upon the issues as to the Hendricks deal only.” (Welch v. Alcott, 185 Cal. 731, 762 [ 198 Pac. 626 ].)
The plaintiff and defendant Alcott were copartners until May 23, 1914, when an action for dissolution and accounting was instituted, and were engaged in establishing a town site and selling real estate embracing what is known as Niland, in Imperial County, and described as the southeast quarter (SE. 14) of section four (4), township eleven (11) south, range fourteen (14) east, San Bernardino meridian. The findings made at the former trial, as affirmed, recite that “the defendant Edward H. Alcott on the 13th day of March, 1914, granted and conveyed in trust to the defendant Title Insurance and Trust Company, a corporation, the said townsite hereinbefore described, the said defendant Title Insurance and Trust Company being therein named as trustee to carry out the provisions of a certain declaration of trust of the same date and being described as Trust No.…