Rahim v. Akbar

Respondents Abdul Rahim and Abdul Khanan brought this action to have it adjudged they were the owners of a lease on the Metropolitan Hotel in Sacramento, that appellants Ali Akbar and Khan Bahadar held the lease in trust for them, that an assignment of respondents’ interest in the lease to appellants be set aside on the ground of fraud and deceit, and that appellants be required to assign the lease to respondents. Prom a judgment in favor of respondents appellants perfected this appeal.

The evidence is conflicting but there is substantial evidence to support the following findings of the trial…