Pacific Trust Co. v. Nagamori

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J. (Parsons, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part.)

Tliis is an action at law brought under the statute to quiet the title to real estate, the plaintiff claiming as mortgagee, after default. The undisputed facts are as follows: in pursuance of an oral agreement entered into on June 20, 1922, between Bunjiro Mizushima and Tsunejiro Nakamura and executed, to a certain extent, on September 21 of - the same year, these two parties bought an undivided seven-eighths interest in a parcel of land, taking the deed in the name of Mizushima as sole grantee. On…