METROPOLITAN FINANCE CORPORATION OF CAL. v. PIERCE

No. 14222.

231 F.2d 617 (1956)

METROPOLITAN FINANCE CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA, Appellant, v. Clifton C. PIERCE and Eileen E. Pierce, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

March 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MacFarlane, Schaefer & Haun, E. J. Caldecott, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Joseph D. Flaum, Walter L. Bruington, Walter L. M. Lorimer, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.


CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Here we must grope to try to find out what, if the parties had really thought about two irrigation ditch assessments of Nevada canal companies, they would have thought. In this diversity case between citizens of California and a Delaware corporation, we have a written agreement for the exchange of Los Angeles real estate, formerly owned by Metropolitan, the plaintiff and appellant, and Nevada farm land formerly owned by the Pierces, defendants...

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