McDuff

This action was brought by plaintiff against his wife to quiet title to certain real property situate in the city of Long Beach in which the defendant claims a community interest. Judgment was for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

In the year 1881, four years prior to the marriage of the parties, plaintiff purchased a farm in Kansas for five thousand dollars, paying two thousand five hundred dollars in cash and trading an interest in other property valued at two thousand five hundred dollars. The two thousand five hundred dollars in cash was borrowed by plaintiff,' and plaintiff gave a mortgage covering the farm to secure its payment. In the year 1913 plaintiff sold the Kansas farm for eleven thousand five hundred dollars, and after paying off the mortgage, which then amounted to three thousand five hundred dollars, received a net balance of eight thousand dollars in cash. Of that sum he invested four thousand dollars in the property in controversy here, upon which he borrowed eight thousand five hundred dollars, and erected four houses thereon. Plaintiff is a carpenter and contractor by trade, and contributed some of his time to the construction of the houses.

Appellant…