Green v. Whiting

The record discloses substantial evidence to the effect that on May 11, 1950, the decedent, Jack H. Green, acquired by grant deed certain vacant property in Arcadia, California, from a brother and sister-in-law, William and Letha Green. The purchase price was $2,500, instalment payments thereon being made by Martha and Stanley DeGroof, and not by decedent. At the time of decedent’s death on December 3, 1954, there remained an unpaid balance of $1,289.60.

Construction loans were secured by the decedent and later paid off by the proceeds of a California Department of Veterans purchase contract,…