Meador v. Parsons

Citations

• 19 Cal. 294

Syllabus

<p>An equitable defense may be be set up to an action of ejectment, but all the elements going to constitute such a defense, as against the legal title, must be distinctly set up and proved.</p> <p>As the findings in this case—ejectment, with an equitable defense imperfectly set up, tried by the Court—do not distinctly find such facts as show defendants’ equity as against plaintiff’s claim, the judgment for plaintiff is affirmed.</p>