Luco

Luco v. De Toro

Good Law
1893 Cal. LEXIS 1069·4 Cal. Unrep. 291·34 P. 516
Supreme Court of CaliforniaOctober 10, 1893No. 19,229California1,127 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Harrison, J.

The appellant’s right of recovery depends upon the performance by Hartman of his contract with Olvera to procure the issuance of a patent for the Rancho Ex-Mission of San Diego. This agreement is set forth at length in the opinion of this court rendered upon the former appeal: 91 Cal. 405 , 27 Pac. 1082 . Upon that appeal the judgment of the court below was reversed for its failure to make a sufficient finding upon this issue. The finding which it had made was held to be ambiguous and *292 uncertain, inasmuch as in one part thereof the court found that immediately after the execution of the agreement Hartman entered upon the performance of the stipulations therein contained to be performed on his part, and that, in connection with the plaintiff herein, he continued to prosecute them to a final conclusion, while in a subsequent portion of the same finding the court found that there had not been a full and complete or substantial performance of that agreement. It was also said in the opinion that the appellant “was entitled to an unequivocal finding on the question of performance.” Upon the subsequent trial of the cause, from which the present appeal-is taken, the court finds that…

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