Fanning v. Green

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial in an action to quiet title.

The plaintiff and defendant’s intestate,’ Margaret Fanning, were husband and wife. They had been married many years when they purchased the lot of land in San Francisco, an undivided one half of which is in controversy here. They had accumulated some property, the proceeds of the savings from the salary of plaintiff as a police officer, and the profits of a grocery store maintained by him which Margaret attended to in his absence. A part of this…