Faria

This is an appeal by defendants from a judgment setting aside two deeds to a ranch in Alameda County.

The plaintiff Prank E. Paria and the defendant Adeline Paria were married in 1912 and in July, 1926, Mrs. Paria obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce upon the ground of extreme cruelty. The other two defendants are the minor children of that marriage. The ranch contains approximately seventeen acres of land, and was purchased in 1915 for $15,200, title thereto being taken in plaintiff’s name. An initial cash payment of $9,000 was made on the purchase price, and the balance of $6,200 was secured by a mortgage, which was paid off out of the ranch earnings prior to the commencement of the present controversy. The $9,000 in cash used in making the initial payment was part of $12,500 received by plaintiff from the sale of a dairy which he owned prior to and at the time of his marriage. The Parias and their children lived on the ranch in question and the same was impressed with a homestead. On November 20, 1923, Paria was sued jointly with others as co-partners by a man named Campbell for $50,000 damages on account of the death of Campbell’s wife, who was killed in a collision…