Blood v. La Serena Land & Water Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County and from an order denying a new trial. W. B. Cope, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Appeals from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.
The complaint is a pleading in the usual form to fore-' *223close a mortgage alleged to have been executed by defendant corporation to plaintiff. Defendant answered, denying the execution of the instruments, and likewise filed a cross-complaint, a general demurrer to which was sustained.
Upon the trial the following facts were disclosed: One James A. Blood was the owner of a ranch containing about three hundred and fifty acres. In the year 1887 he authorized his nephew, James A. Blood, Jr., a real estate broker, to make a sale of…
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