California Court of Appeal

In this case, plaintiff seeks to quiet title to a residential property that she purchased with pooled funds provided by River Forest Financial and Elevation Investments "in partnership for the purchase." On the original version of the trustee's deed, plaintiff was named as a grantee without any stated percentage interest in the property, but plaintiff alleges that the trustee's deed that was executed and recorded omitted her name. The property was subsequently quitclaimed by River Forest to Elevation and then sold to defendant Coronado. Plaintiff now claims that the alteration of the original deed renders it void, giving Coronado no interest in the property. Order sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend in favor of Coronado is affirmed, where the alteration of the deed to omit plaintiff's name was not material because the original version of the deed showed she had no interest in the property, and thus, Coronado as a purchaser has title to the property.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2014
• Published 12/18/2014

Judges

• Mosk

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel