Baldwin v. Brown

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants in an action commenced by the plaintiff to set aside a sale of real estate made under the power granted to the trustee in a trust deed. The facts out of which this litigation arose are practically undisputed and may be briefly summarized as follows:

On and prior to the twenty-fifth day of March, 1916, F. H. Baldwin and Margaret L. Baldwin were husband and wife, residing at Bakersfield, Kern County, California. On said last-named date F. H. Baldwin borrowed the sum of $2,000 from D. L. Brown, the defendant herein, and thereupon…