Daman
Daman v. Hunt
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hart, J.
Plaintiff brought the action to quiet his title to certain lots in the town site of Howard, in the county of Los Angeles. Judgment was in favor of plaintiff for a portion of said lots and in favor of the intervener as to the balance thereof. Plaintiff prosecutes this appeal from that portion of the judgment which was in favor of the intervener, no question arising herein as to the other lots.
The complaint was filed on September 23, 1915-, and was in the usual form, alleging that defendant, Hunt, claimed some interest in the real property adverse to plaintiff. On February 16, 1916, H. W. Reynolds, as assignee in the matter of Jeremiah W. German, an insolvent debtor, filed a complaint in intervention.
The findings of the court present fully certain facts of the case. They are as follows: (2) That, on the thirty first day of July, 1888, Jeremiah W. German was the owner in fee and was in possession .of the lots in controversy; (3) that on said day said German filed his petition in voluntary insolvency in the superior court of the county of Los Angeles and that he was duly adjudged an insolvent; (4) that at a meeting of the creditors of said insolvent, Jacob Baruch was chosen…