Block v. Citizen Trust & Savings Bank

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action to recover the purchase price of a certain parcel of land that defendant had agreed to convey to plaintiff, the latter claiming the title to be defective. The true construction of defendant’s contract of sale is the only question involved.

The findings disclose a situation substantially as follows : On September 11, 1913, plaintiff and defendant entered into a written contract whereby defendant agreed to sell and plaintiff agreed to buy a lot of land in Los Angeles County for the sum of six hundred dollars, payable in certain…