Legal Opinion
Hodges v. Lochhead
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 14, 1963No. Civ. 20819PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAgee, J.
Defendants appeal from a judgment quieting title to a house and lot in plaintiff and awarding damages to plaintiff for the withholding of possession thereof by defendants.
Plaintiff’s Case. On November 27, 1957, Frederick M. Horrigan executed a grant deed of the property to plaintiff and delivered it to his attorney, David H. Gill, with the following signed instructions: “You are instructed to deliver the enclosed deed to my home to Mrs. Mildred Hodges [plaintiff] on my death, and you are not to return the deed to me on any account. ’ ’
Horrigan died on January 13, 1960. Gill thereupon…
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