Crozer

The plaintiff brought this suit to quiet her title to certain real property, of which she alleged her ownership in fee, situated in Mendocino county, embracing one hundred and t'en acres of land “and being a part of the N. W. 14 of section 18, Township 22 N., R. 12 W., M. D. B. & M.”

The defendant, W. P. White, answering the complaint, denies that plaintiff “is now, or that she was at the time of the commencement of this action, the owner in fee of all or any part of that real property” described by metes and bounds in the complaint, and sets up ownership thereof in himself, alleging “he is now, and has been at all times since the tenth day of August, 1901, the owner in fee” of said land.

The defendant Rohrbough alleges in his answer that he has a leasehold interest in said land as tenant under the terms of a certain written lease, “made on the fifteenth day of April, 1900, in which the then owner of the premises described in plaintiff’s complaint, George E. White, was the lessor, and this defendant' became and was made a lessee of said premises for the term of ten years from and after the said fifteenth day of April, 1900; and that under said lease this defendant entered into…