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This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment against them in an action to quiet title to real property in Mendocino County, California.

The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that Charles H. Starkey, the former husband of defendant Mrs. G. T. Starkey, died in the county of Mendocino on September 6, 1904. Pie left an estate therein consisting of certain personal property, and there was also standing of record in his name at the time of his death certain real property, being the same property de scribed in the complaint herein, upon which he was living at the time of his death.

The said decedent left as his heirs at law Mrs. G. T. Starkey, his widow; Marshall Ney Starkey, one of the defendants herein, a minor son, who was at the time of the filing of the complaint herein of the age of eighteen years and appeared by his guardian; Elizabeth Margaret Starkey, a minor daughter, who died in February, 1918, at the age of eighteen years, and whose interest herein is represented by the administrator of her estate; and Hazel Gertrude Starkey, a minor daughter, who died in March, 1914, at the age of twelve years, and whose interest herein is also…