Jones

This is an action to quiet title to five separate parcels of land in Los Angeles County. .Defendant, the daughter of plaintiff, claims that she and her mother own the land as joint tenants. The answer not only denies plaintiff’s allegation of entire ownership, but alleges, as conduct on the part of plaintiff estopping her from asserting sole ownership, that the latter, subsequently to the time when she signed certain blank deeds presently to be mentioned, not only treated the properties as jointly owned by herself and defendant, but that she also, as defendant’s attorney in fact, executed several promissory notes secured by mortgages upon the properties, and that in this way she obligated defendant personally as well as encumbered the latter’s joint title to the lands. The trial court found all of the issues in favor of plaintiff and entered judgment for her accordingly. Defendant appeals.

The situation as to one of the pieces of property—lot D in block 87 of the city of Santa Monica (referred to in appellant’s brief as parcel No. !)■—differs radically from that of the remaining four parcels (referred to in appellant’s brief as parcels Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5). We shall consider the…