Robertson

In this action to quiet title to certain lands in San Mateo County, the plaintiffs had judgment and the defendants appealed.

The common source of the titles claimed by the parties is the Capuchino Golf Corporation, which acquired a tract of land for the purpose of laying out a golf course and subdividing and selling the land adjacent thereto for residential purposes. The corporation engaged the defendant Stansbury Contracting Company to make extensive improvements on the property, for which it became indebted to the contracting company in a large sum for materials and labor, and for money advanced. The contracting company was demanding payment, whereupon the golf corporation agreed to execute promissory notes aggregating $102,626.88, and, as security therefor, a second trust deed on its interest in said property. On May 26, 1928, the president of the golf corporation issued a call for a special meeting of its board of directors, to be held on May 31st at 10 o’clock A. M. at the office of the corporation, and certified that on said 26th day of May he had served a true copy of the call on ‘1 each of the directors of the Capuchino Golf Corporation”. On May 31st three directors, of…