Eastman v. Peterson

COLLINS, J. pro tem. *

Plaintiff, owner of a life estate, brings this action against defendant, owner of a future interest as remainderman, to impress and foreclose a lien in the amount of his expenditures for permanent improvements on the subject real property.

The trial court found that plaintiff was in legal possession of the residential income property at 2305 Effie Street in the City of Los Angeles (hereafter called the property), at the time improvements “in the approximate sum of $10,000” were made thereon, 1 but that they were not made with any belief on plaintiff’s part that he was…