Gorham

Plaintiffs had judgment in an action to quiet title, from which judgment the defendant appeals. The action was instituted by the plaintiffs to quiet their title to lot 26, in block 53, of the city of Long Beach, as that lot is described in a map recorded in book 19, at page 91 et seq., miscellaneous records of the county of Los Angeles. The facts, as gleaned from the record, are as follows:

Upon the premises described there is situate one single house and one double house. For a long time prior to any of the transactions referred to herein, J. W. Harris and Mary Harris, his wife, occupied the single house; that for about two years prior to December, 1921, the plaintiffs had occupied one section of the double house as tenants of J. W, Harris and his wife; that during the month of December, 1921, J. W. Harris and Mary Harris executed and delivered to G. N. Jackson and Della Jackson, a deed of conveyance transferring all of said property to the plaintiffs in this action; that at the time of the delivery of said conveyance, the plaintiffs in this action executed and delivered to J, W, Harris and Mary Harris, an instrument conveying to said J. W. Harris and Mary Harris a life estate…