Hall v. Wright

The action is for specific performance of a written contract for. the purchase of a tract of land in Sonoma county. The facts are not disputed and the only question of law presented is, as agreed by counsel, “whether or not the plaintiffs have a present title in fee in the lands involved which they can convey by deed to the defendant. ” It is stipulated that on the twentieth day of April, 1883, W. S. M. Wright was the owner in fee of the premises, and on that day he executed a deed thereof to Mrs. M. 0. Hall “for the natural life of the said party of the second part, and then to the heirs of…