Richards

This is an action to quiet title. The plaintiffs framed their complaint in the ordinary form of an action to quiet title. The defendants appeared and filed an answer in which they denied many of the allegations of plaintiffs ’ complaint and then they pleaded an affirmative defense. The substance of that defense is that the city of Los Angeles on March 24, 1925, caused to be issued a certificate of sale against the property involved. That certificate purported to have been issued pursuant to certain public improvements made under the Street Improvement Act, chapter 397, of the Statutes of 1911. The defendants allege that they made a tender of the amount due on December 30, 1926, that it was refused and that they have been and are now willing and ready to pay all sums due. The trial court made findings in favor of the defendants and among other things it recited certain facts showing that at the time the plaintiffs applied for a deed the only notice served on the owner was a certain notice served by posting on the property and that thereafter the plaintiffs made an affidavit that the property was unoccupied. Continuing, the court found that at the time the notice was posted there…