SMITH v. BROVAN

Docket No. 16163.

97 Cal.App.3d 19 (1979)

158 Cal. Rptr. 515

JUSTIN V. SMITH, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent, v. CHARLES D. BROVAN et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

September 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Adolph Moskovitz, Barbara Sand, Janet K. Goldsmith, Ray W. Sherman, Jr., and John T. Nimmons for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Carr, Kennedy, Peterson & Frost, R. Russ Peterson, David F. Schmidt and Laurence J. Kennedy, Jr., for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

EVANS, J.

The nature, scope, and applicability of the good faith improver statute (Code Civ. Proc., § 871.1 et seq.) is the fundamental issue presented upon this appeal.

The factual circumstances which gave rise to the present controversy began in 1959. At that time defendants and cross-complainants (hereafter Brovans) purchased approximately 75 acres of land in Shasta County. The deed by which they acquired title...

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