Iknoian

Action to quiet title. On July 9, 1919, defendants Karl Winter and Mary, his wife, were the owners of certain lots in Sanger Colony in the county of Fresno. The property was subject to a purchase price mortgage in favor of Mary M. Barbour for $7,800. On the date last mentioned Winter and his wife entered into a contract with the plaintiffs for the sale to them of the property for the sum of $10,000, the terms being $1,000 cash; $1,000 and interest on or before November 1, 1920; $1,000 and interest on or before November 1, 1921, and a like sum and interest on or before November 1, 1922; $5,000 and interest on or before November 1, 1923, and the balance of $1,000 and interest on or before November 1, 1924. The parties agreed that the purchasers might make any of the payments agreed to be made, upon and towards the payment of said mortgage, and when so paid the amount would be credited upon the purchase price. The evidence shows that plaintiffs paid Winter the sum of $4,000 in conformity with the terms of the contract and at the time the last payment of $1,000-was made Winter only had coming to him the sum of $200 on the principal over and above the existing mortgage; that he…