Healy v. O'Brien
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new ■trial. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, J.
The action is ejectment, based on a deed from the owners of the property, absolute in form. The answer of the defendants, who are husband and wife, denies the alleged ownership of the plaintiff, and then sets up that although absolute *519in form, the deed was given only as security for certain moneys, to be and which were advanced by the plaintiff to the defendant, Matthias O’Brien; states the terms of the agreement under which the moneys were so advanced, alleges the willingness and readiness of the defendants to carry out the contract, and prays, among other things, that the deed be decreed a…
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