Finnell v. Finnell
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Charles W. Slack, and Walter Perry Johnson, for John Finnell, Jr., Administrator, Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtBeatty, C. J.
On the eighteenth day of October, 1890, Williamson Finnell, the plaintiff in this action, sold and conveyed to his father, John Finnell, 4,250 acres of land. The whole purchase price of the land was $127,500.00, of which sum $35,500.00 were paid at the date of the conveyance. For the balance of ninety-two thousand dollars the plaintiff accepted his father’s promissory note, payable on or before October 15, 1900, without other security than his vendor’s lien on the land. On the twenty-fourth day of May, 1900, John Finnell organized the defendant, the Finnell Land Company, a corporation with a…
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