Estate of Conner CA2/5

FACTS

I. Background

In 1976, petitioner and Conner purchased an apartment building on North Santa Fe Avenue in Compton California. Conner paid 80 percent of the purchase price and petitioner provided the remaining 20 percent. They formed a partnership in which the rental proceeds were to be split 80-20 with Conner receiving the 80 percent share. Conner lived in California and managed nearly all aspects of the operation including but not limited to the collection of rent, payment of property taxes, and the distribution to petitioner of his 20 percent share of the profits. Petitioner lived in Germany and did not assist in the business operations. In either 2010 or 2011, Conner discovered that the sellers were still on the title to the property. He sought legal counsel concerning a quiet title action, but no complaint was filed prior to him passing away in 2016. The trial court appointed Conner’s

Petitioner does not address the judicial admission in his opening brief, and he did not file a reply brief.

3 brother, Gary Pickett, as the administrator of Conner’s estate.4 On March 6, 2019, Pickett filed a complaint for quiet title of the property. The complaint alleged the…