Monterey Park Commercial & Savings Bank v. Bank of West Hollywood

This was an action to cancel a certain deed from plaintiff to defendant Leslie Miller for a certain tract of land containing ten acres in Yucaipa Valley and also to cancel a deed conveying the same land from said Leslie Miller to defendants George W. Miller and Elizabeth Miller, or in the event that title to said land cannot be decreed to plaintiff, that it recover from defendants the snm of $7,200, that being the reasonable value of said lands.

Judgment was rendered for plaintiff canceling the said deeds and requiring said Millers to reconvey said land to plaintiff within thirty days after its rendition, and in the 'event of their failure to do this that plaintiff have judgment against them and the defendant Bank of West Hollywood for the sum of $8,000. All of the said defendants filed motions for new trials, and said motions having been denied they have appealed.

No judgment was taken against defendant Alice A. Dodd.

In October, 19-26, defendant Alice Dodd and her husband conveyed to respondent by their deed a five-acre tract of land known as block 82, hereafter also referred to as tract No. 1, and also a tract of land known as block 70, hereafter also referred to as tract…