Jacobs

Plaintiff brought this action under the Mc-Enerney act, so called, to quiet her title to a certain piece of real estate situate at the corner of Broderick and Sutter streets, in the city and county of San Francisco. Plaintiff alleged and claimed that she was the owner of the premises in suit in fee. The appellants appeared in the action, and while admitting plaintiff to be the owner of the premises for and during her natural life, denied that she was the owner thereof in fee, and set up a claim of title in remainder in each of them to an undivided interest in said premises. In their several answers defendants set up their chain of title, in which they allege that on and prior to the thirty-first day of December, 1900, one Jacob Jacobs was the owner in fee simple of the premises in suit, and on said day made a deed of said property, by which he conveyed.a life estate therein to plaintiff, and remainder therein, after the expiration of said life estate to his three sons, Gustav Jacobs, Albert Jacobs and Leopold Jacobs, from whom appellants in turn deraigned such title as they claim.

The court found that on and prior to the thirty-first day of December, 1900, one Jacob Jacobs was…