Court Opinion

ID: 9738012
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:40:31.062543+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:03.237870
License: Public Domain

VALLES, J.
I concur in the judgment. I am in accord with the construction of deeds 1, 2, and 3. I am of the opinion deed 4 is in the same category as deeds 1, 2 and 3. It contains the same conditions as the other deeds. No mention is made in the opinion of the fact that in deed 4 by Lewis Bradbury to defendant’s predecessor the conditions are stated following the granting clause and before the habendum. In the light of the conditions stated in deed 4, I find nothing uncertain or ambiguous in the provision which appears after the description and preceding the habendum in the deeds which fol*572lowed: “Except such portions thereof as are now included in rights of way for railroad purposes and in established roads and highways.” Respondent did not appeal. Section 956 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that “Upon an appeal from a judgment the court .may review the verdict or decision, and any intermediate ruling, proceeding, order or decision which involves the merits or necessarily affects the judgment, or which substantially affects the rights of a party. . . . The respondent, or party in whose favor the judgment-was given, may, without appealing from such judgment, request the court to and it may review any of the foregoing matters for the purpose of determining whether or not the appellant was prejudiced by the error or errors upon which he relies for reversal or modification of the judgment from which the appeal is tahen.” (Emphasis added.) Since plaintiffs were not prejudiced by the error, if there was error, defendant may not question the failure of the trial court to find on the issue of changed economic conditions and, as I read its brief, it has not done so. Further, title reverted irrespective of the special defenses whether the facts alleged in them are true or not.
Respondent’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied February 15, 1963.