Mings
Mings v. Compton City School District
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tuttle, J.
Plaintiff seeks herein to quiet title against the defendant School District to a parcel of land comprising a part of the school grounds being used by the defendant for the Tamarind school in the county of Los Angeles. The complaint is in the usual form of quiet title. By its amended answer, defendant denies title in plaintiff; alleges that defendant has been in the quiet and peaceable possession of the disputed tract, holding and claiming the same adversely to plaintiff, and all other persons, for more than nineteen years before the commencement of the action, and that neither the plaintiff nor any of her predecessors or grantors were seised or possessed of said premises, or any portion thereof, within nineteen years before the commencement of the action. A further and separate defense is set up that plaintiff derived her claim to title by mesne conveyance from one B. H. Wilson; that defendant is the successor in interest of the said Wilson; that on December 15, 1908, prior to any previous conveyance by him of said premises, said Wilson and his wife executed to defendant a deed, all parties thereto intending thereby that there should be included therein and conveyed to the School…