Burd v. Downing

The judgment in this action was in favor of the plaintiff, and defendant has appealed.

The plaintiff, after showing her appointment as administratrix of the estate of James Burd, deceased, alleged that on the twenty-first day of January, 1914, the said Burd entered into a lease with the defendant covering certain real property in the city of Long Beach known as the Kensington Apartments; that at the same time the said James Burd and Mattie E. Burd executed to the defendant a mortgage for the sum of $325 to secure the payment of the last month’s rent to become due under said lease; that on the…