Sherman v. Panno

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Pearl Sherman, from an order granting defendants’ motion for a new trial upon the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence. The defendants, Vivian Panno and Carlo Panno, husband and wife, have cross-appealed from the whole and each and every part of the judgment.

The action is one by Pearl Sherman and her husband, Marty Sherman, to have the court declare and enforce a resulting trust over a parcel of farm land in the Imperial Valley of California. At the conclusion of the trial, the judge announced that judgment would be for the plaintiff, Pearl Sherman.…