Court Opinion

ID: 9791022
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:03:36.607322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:33.387237
License: Public Domain

SHENK, J., Dissenting.
I dissent. A copy of the complaint in the action of Griffin v. McCall is attached to the petition herein. In the first cause of action, in twenty-six paragraphs, the plaintiffs set forth the facts on which they rely for relief. They allege their contract with certain of the defendants for the purchase and sale of real property, under which contract written documents were executed and exchanged, and under certain of which the plaintiffs acquired the title to the real property involved. They allege at length the fraudulent representations under which they were induced to enter into the contract and acquire the property, with appropriate averments of falsity and reliance. They allege rescission of the contract, on notice, and an offer to restore, upon the discovery of the alleged fraud. They pray that their rescission be confirmed; that the court order a cancellation of the written instruments and compel the defendants' to accept a reconveyance of the title to the property received by the plaintiffs in the transaction, and that money paid to the defendants be returned to the plaintiffs.
There can be no doubt that the pending action is a suit in equity, as distinguished from an action at law, and it is not an action on a contract, express or implied, for the direct payment of money. The second and third counts add nothing which may not be adjudicated on the trial of the main issues and are based upon the same transaction involved in the first cause of action. On the theory of the case of Stone v. Superior Court, 214 Cal. 272 [4 Pac. (2d) 777, 77 A. L. R. 743], in that respect, and other cases to the same effect, the right to an attachment should be denied. *541Whether the Stone case is right or wrong on the facts there presented is entirely beside the question in this proceeding. Involved herein is an action to confirm a rescission and to obtain the benefits resulting therefrom by a decree in equity without which such benefits could not be secured. Nothing else incorporated in this complaint should be considered in determining the right to an attachment. In my opinion the peremptory writ should issue without conditions.
Curtis, J., concurred.