Donze

This is an appeal from that portion of an interlocutory judgment of divorce decreeing a certain house and lot standing in the name of appellant to be the community property of the respective spouses.

Appellant and respondent intermarried at Santa Barbara on July 29, 1909. In consideration of the sum of $100, the mother and father of respondent executed a deed of conveyance April 27, 1922, to lot two, block 102, of said city of Santa Barbara, to appellant, Hattie Genevieve Donze “as Tier separate property.” A dwelling-house was thereafter constructed on this lot at a cost of $2,800, which was from the building and loan association on a note and mortgage executed by these parties as a lien upon said This money was subsequently paid. in installments from the earnings acquired during coverture. Domestic trouble arose. In August, 1924, respondent brought suit against the appellant for divorce, alleging that said lot was their community property. The appellant answered denying this allegation, and upon the contrary alleged that it was her separate property, and in a cross-complaint she prayed for a divorce on her part. Upon trial a divorce was denied respondent, but appellant was…