Kaufmann v. California Mining And Dredging Syndicate

SPENCE, J., pro tem. Plaintiffs, claiming to be stockholders in the defendant California Mining and Dredging Syndicate, a corporation, brought this action against said corporation seeking to have certain real property partitioned among the stockholders. The interveners, E. J. Anderson and H. A. Salstrom, filed their complaint in intervention alleging that they were the owners of said real property, having purchased the same for $13,600 upon an execution sale in another action in which California Pacific Title and Trust Company, a corporation, was the plaintiff and the California Mining and Dredging Syndicate, a corporation, was the defendant. The prayer of the complaint in intervention sought judgment to the effect that plaintiffs take nothing by their action and that the title of the plaintiffs in intervention be quieted. The cause was tried by the court sitting without a jury and judgment was entered in favor of plaintiffs in intervention. Plaintiffs appeal from said judgment. We will hereinafter refer to plaintiffs as appellants and to plaintiffs in intervention as respondents.