Nicholson v. Henderson

Appellants plaintiffs in this action filed a complaint seeking to impress a trust and to quiet title to a parcel of land. Subsequently they filed an amended complaint in which they asked for the same relief. We will refer to plaintiffs’ final pleading as the complaint rather than as the amended complaint. Respondent, the defendant, filed an answer to the complaint, and also sought by cross-complaint to have her title quieted to the same parcel of land described in the complaint. During the trial, the court granted respondent’s motion for a nonsuit on the complaint, which order was entered in…