O'CONNOR

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants and cross-complainants in a quiet title action. The parties own land through which the Sacramento River flows. Appellants brought the action to quiet title to land lying east of the present bank of the river. Respondents claimed title up to the bank. The trial court upheld the claims of respondents and this appeal followed.

Appellants deraigned title from (1) a patent from the United States to the Central Pacific Railroad, dated March 17, 1875, and (2) a patent from the State of California to Jacob Dungan, dated August 29, 1877. The descriptions in these patents refer to lots shown on the government survey. The surveys show a meander line along the west bank of the river with courses and distances given. The chain of title shows that appellants’ predecessors described the property in their various conveyances by reference to the same surveys until July 23,1903, when a deed from Poster to Poster Company described the land according to a recorded subdivision map of Maywood Colony Number 23. Thereafter, conveyances referred to this map until August 15, 1906, on which date an amended map was filed. Thereafter, conveyances in…