Rose

Rose v. Crawford

Good Law
1918 Cal. App. LEXIS 374·37 Cal. App. 664·174 P. 69
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 26, 1918Civ. No. 2430.California1,218 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Kerrigan, J.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate two judgments, one interlocutory and the other final, in an action by which the plaintiff sought to foreclose all the rights of the defendants under a written agreement to purchase an improved parcel of land situated in Alameda County.

On the third day of June, 1914, plaintiff’s assignor, L. D. MacDonald, and the appellant entered into a written contract, whereby MacDonald agreed to sell to the appellant the real property described in the complaint for the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, subject to a mortgage of five thousand dollars. Two thousand dollars was to be paid at the time the contract was executed, and upon the balance of the contract the appellant was to pay the sum of one hundred dollars per month until the whole contract price should be paid. There was a provision in the agreement to the effect that if the appellant failed to comply with its terms, she should forfeit all rights thereunder.

Upon the execution of the contract the appellant went into possession of the premises, and when this action was commenced about eighteen months later she was, according to the plaintiff’s testimony, about six…

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