Gassen v. Hendrick
California Supreme Court
Appeal from, a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, and from an order refusing a new trial. The action was brought for the partition of certain lands, to an undivided part of which the plaintiffs claim title under a deed from Clarence L. Carr to Thomas H. Bush, dated on the 3d of June, 1871, and recorded on the 8th of July, 1885. The defendants claim title to the whole of said land under a deed from Clarence L. Carr to Elizabeth R. Carr, dated on the 10th of…
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Appeal from, a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, and from an order refusing a new trial. The action was brought for the partition of certain lands, to an undivided part of which the plaintiffs claim title under a deed from Clarence L. Carr to Thomas H. Bush, dated on the 3d of June, 1871, and recorded on the 8th of July, 1885. The defendants claim title to the whole of said land under a deed from Clarence L. Carr to Elizabeth R. Carr, dated on the 10th of August, 1878, and recorded on the 15th of the same month. The court found that Elizabeth R. Carr was a bona fide…
1Opinion of the CourtMcKinstry, J.
On the third day of June, 1871, Clarence L. Carr made a deed to Thomas H. Bush of one undivided half of a certain twenty-acre tract of land. The deed was not recorded until the eighth day of July, 1885.
On the tenth day of August, 1878, the said Clarence L. Carr signed a deed of the whole tract, with other lands, to Elizabeth R. Carr, his mother, for the recited consideration of eight hundred dollars. This last deed was acknowledged and was duly recorded August 15, 1878.
It is contended by appellants: 1. That, as the deed to Elizabeth R. Carr was in consideration of a pre-existing indebtedness,…
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