Sandhu

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts1

In March 2019, Temple Hospital Realty Corp., Inc. and Michael Camras (collectively, defendants) agreed to sell plaintiff a piece of real property. Plaintiff paid defendants the agreed- upon price of $650,000, but the grant deed to the property contained errors and plaintiff was unable to record it. Four

We draw the facts from plaintiff’s operative complaint.

2 months later, defendants executed a grant deed on the property to a third party, which the third party successfully recorded.

II. Procedural Background

A. Complaint In July 2020, plaintiff sued defendants for breach of contract, money had and received, and fraud.2 He sought specific performance of the contract or $850,000 in damages (he alleged is the sum of what he had paid defendants for the property and the property’s postsale appreciation). B. Demurrer Defendants demurred to the complaint on the ground that it failed to state any valid cause of action. Plaintiff did not file an opposition, but he did file a declaration two days prior to the hearing on the demurrer. After hearing argument and taking the matter under submission, the trial court issued an…