Godfrey

The plaintiff and respondent instituted this proceeding for the recovery of a certain parcel of real property situated at Beverly Hills, in Los Angeles County, which she alleged that appellant had obtained from her by coercion, threats to impugn her character and chastity, duress, undue influence, and extortion.

The appellant and respondent intermarried on February 3, 1922, at which time the latter possessed and held in trust Liberty bonds of the value of fifteen thousand dollars, and other personal property belonging to her infant daughter, issue of a former marriage, named Ruth Meloy, and which were on deposit in a safe deposit box at the Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank. On March 3, 1922, appellant purchased and caused to be conveyed to respondent the real property involved in this suit as a wedding present. Shortly thereafter appellant commenced, both personally and through friends and relatives of the respondent, a persistent course of urging and persuasion to induce Mrs. Godfrey to deliver the Liberty bonds to him for investment, which she repeatedly refused to do. Appellant then prevailed upon his wife to share with him the use of her safe depqsit box, for which purpose…