General Casualty Co. v. Soda

Asserting that the deed under which defendants claim title to land in Contra Costa County was in fact a mortgage, plaintiff brought this action to quiet title to lots still held by defendants, and for money judgment for the proceeds of lots theretofore sold by them. Defendants claimed that their deed was in fact absolute, and also relied upon a release claimed to amount to a surrender of the equity of redemption if the transaction were in fact a mortgage. They asserted further that plaintiff’s apparently absolute deed was itself but a mortgage. Their cross-complaint sought to quiet title in…