Mercantile Investment Co. v. How

PRESTON (H. L.), J., pro tem.

Plaintiff and appellant Mercantile Investment Company, a corporation, brought this action to quiet title to a tract of land situate. in the town of “Hollydale, ” Los Angeles County. An answer was filed by the defendants and respondents T. J. V. How and Mary E. How, his wife, in which they alleged that they had an interest in said real property consisting of a lien thereon for the sum of $1163.60, which sum they had paid to appellant on account of the purchase price of said property. The answer further alleged that the contract theretofore entered, into between…