48 Cal. 405
Decided July 1, 1874
California Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01
<p>Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco.</p> <p>The complaint alleged that George Lumley, in his lifetime, borrowed two hundred dollars from the defendant, and gave him his note for it, and, to secure the note, gave the defendant an absolute deed of a lot in Ban Francisco. That Lumley, when the note fell due, tendered the money and a deed of reconveyance ready to -be executed, and demanded a reconveyance, and that the defendant refused the money and to reconvey. That since then the defendant had sold the lot to one Kerr, who bought in good faith and without notice. Damages were claimed in the sum of one thousand dollars. The Court below sustained a demurrer to the complaint and the plaintiff appealed.</p>
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently September 1937
2 state decisions
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Decided 1874-07-01
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¶1The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for a breach of a verbal contract to r¡ convey real estate. No such action can be maintained, at law.
¶2If it be claimed that the conveyance from plaintiff to defendant was intended as a mortgage, the former must apply to a Court of equity so to declare.
¶3Judgment sustaining the demurrer to the amended complaint is affirmed.