Lewis v. Thomas Burns
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County and from an order denying a new trial. G. W. Nicol, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNES, C.
Action to quiet plaintiff’s title to two certain lots in the city of Stockton. The complaint alleges that plaintiff and Bridget Burns intermarried in 1873; that Bridget died November 3 6, 1892; that while they were husband and wife they purchased with their own means, the result of their joint labors, the lots in question; that the conveyances were taken in the name of the wife for the community and were so held until Bridget’s death, and upon her death became the sole property of the plaintiff, as surviving husband.
The answer denied that the purchases were made by the fruits or…
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