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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 520

Citation
Section 520
Parent Document
Western Land Office, Inc. v. Cervantes, 175 Cal. App. 3d 724 (1985)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
1985-12-13

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at p. 610.) The court said; “It is true, as appellants argue, that motive is ordinarily a factual issue to be resolved by the trier of fact, but such an issue cannot be submitted to the jury unless substantial evidence appears in the record to support it. . . . [The landlord] bought the building with knowledge of its defects, and for the purpose of demolition. That it may have from the first intended to evict its tenants as part of the process hardly establishes the existence of the kind of reprisal interdicted by the cases on retaliatory eviction.” (Ib id.) D. Expansion of the Common Law Concept, 1970-1979 In Aweeka v. Bonds