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81 Cal. 38

McGrath v. Hyde

California Supreme Court

Decided October 1, 1889

California Supreme Court · decided 1889-10-01

, The action was brought by the plaintiffs, as heirs at law of one Michael Hyde, for the cancellation of a deed purporting to have been executed by him to the defendant. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs. The further facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

Decided 1889-10-01

Sharpstein, J.

¶1The transcript contains a bill of exceptions, and the appeal is from the judgment. The findings were filed on the seventh day of January, 1885, and the notice of appeal on the tenth day of October, 1885.

¶2As the appeal was not taken within sixty daj'-s after the rendition of the judgment, we cannot review an exception to the decision on the ground that it is not supported by the evidence. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 839.)

¶3The finding, “ that the said Michael Hyde did not *39at any time deliver said deed to said Ellen Hyde, the person named therein as grantor,” is attacked by appellant on two grounds: 1. That it is not supported by the evidence; 2. That it is outside the issues.

¶4For reasons already stated, we cannot consider the first of these grounds, and the second, in our opinion, is untenable.

¶5The allegation of the complaint, “ that if the said Michael Hyde ever signed or acknowledged the said instrument, he was forced and unduly influenced to do so by the defendant, and he had not then, or at any time since the eighth day of May, 1882, sufficient strength of mind or body to execute or deliver the said deed, or to understand its provisions or covenants, and the said deed never was delivered by said Michael Hyde to the defendant,”—in our opinion, is an allegation of non-delivery of the deed. This and all the other allegations of the complaint were denied by the answer of the defendant. That, we think, presented an issue upon which it was the duty of the court to find.

¶6As the court found upon all the issues, and the findings support the judgment, it must be affirmed.

¶7Judgment affirmed.

¶8McFarland, J., Fox, J., Thornton, J., Works, J., and Paterson, J., concurred.

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