McCord

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendants in an action brought by the plaintiff, as special administrator of the estate of Mary McCord, deceased, to quiet title to certain real estate situate in the county of Napa, and to have canceled a certain deed from Mary McCord to Lillie E. Maddux and Anna A. Newell, two of the defendants in the action, which had been placed of record, and thus constitutes a cloud upon the title to said property, and which deed the plaintiff alleges the said decedent never made nor delivered to said grantees. The answer of the defendants denies title to said premises in Mary McCord at the time of her death, and alleges that said Mary McCord in her lifetime, and while the owner of said real estate, made, executed, and delivered said deed thereto to the said grantees named therein, who had ever since been and still were the owners of the whole thereof. The cause went to trial upon the issues as thus presented, when certain evidence, to be hereafter adverted to, was educed. Upon its submission the trial court, after making certain formal findings, proceeded to find that Mary McCord, on or about the fifth day of October, 1912, while the owner of…