Hughes

Elizabeth L. Moxley commenced this action to have two deeds of lands in the city of San Francisco, made by John S. Moxley to the defendant, vacated and set aside. The court below found the facts, and adjudged that each of the said deeds “ be and the same is hereby canceled, annulled and for naught held, to the extent of an undivided one-half interest in the said real estate in said deed described.” After the entry of the judgment the plaintiff, Elizabeth L. Moxley, died» and thereupon the present plaintiff, as administrator of her estate, was substituted in her place.

From the judgment entered and from an order denying her motion for a new trial the defendant appeals.

The only points made for a reversal are that the findings were not justified by the evidence, and that the decision was against law.

The evidence introduced covers about two hundred and fifty pages of the printed transcript, and it is very elaborately discussed by counsel in their briefs. No useful purpose would, however, be subserved by setting it out at length, and we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to a statement of a few of the more important matters disclosed by it.

It appears that John S. Moxley and…