Tognazzini v. Tognazzini

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by plaintiffs from an adverse judg ment in a suit to impress a constructive trust on, and for an accounting of profits from, an undivided one-ninth interest in Los Alamos ranch in Santa Barbara County, legal title to which is in defendants.

The basis of the suit is that in the year 1913 defendant Valerio Tognazzini, while acting as guardian of the estates of plaintiffs, who were then minors, allegedly was guilty of a breach of trust by self-dealing and failure to make full disclosure in the partition of several family realty holdings, pursuant to which Valerio received an…