Hough v. Waters
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant recovered judgment in the Court below, and the plaintiff appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Shafter, J.:
This is an action to compel the specific performance of a contract to convey. The defendant, Catharine Waters, alleges in her answer that she brought an action of ejectment against the plaintiff some two years prior to the commencement of this suit, to recover the premises included in the alleged contract to convey, and that Hough set up the said contract as a defense in that action, ánd that the contract was denied by special replication,—that the case was thereafter tried and judgment recovered by Waters for the possession of the land, which j udgment is now in…
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