Hughes

Hughes v. DeMund

Good Law
1936 Cal. LEXIS 663·7 Cal. 2d 504·61 P.2d 455
Supreme Court of CaliforniaOctober 16, 1936L. A. No. 15491California337 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

On October 5, 1936, respondent’s motion to affirm the judgment herein appealed from was granted from the bench. In making our order we were of the opinion, as urged in the motion, that the appeal lacked substantiality. The action is one in equity for dissolution of partnership and for an accounting. Various phases of the litigation have been before us on prior occasions.

The judgment presently appealed from decrees, in accordance with the findings, that several of the parcels of real property, alleged by plaintiff and appellant to have been partnership property, represent the sole and exclusive property of the defendant and respondent, whose title thereto was thereupon quieted. It was also found and decreed that certain other parcels were owned by the parties as tenants in common and not as partners. In addition, the court below foreclosed certain mortgages executed by the appellant in favor of the respondent and ordered sold appellant’s interest in the properties held as tenants in common to pay to the respondent the indebtedness secured by the mortgages.

In support of his appeal, the appellant, who appears in propria persona, urges seven grounds for a reversal of the judgment.…

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