Schainman

These two actions to quiet title to the same piece of real property situated in the city and county of San Francisco were tried jointly by stipulation and the appeals in both are presented on a single typewritten record. The trial court gave judgment for the plaintiff in each case. Plaintiff claimed title under a tax deed issued to Paul Schainman on June 30, 1921, following a sale for nonpayment of taxes for the year 1915, and it is stipulated that the defendants are entitled to judgment unless their title has been divested by this deed. The main issues raised in these cases were considered in Morton v. Sloan, ante, p. 747 [ 275 Pac. 223 ], but as they have been presented in a different way it will be necessary to treat them separately.

Primarily the attack is made upon the assessment of the tax for the year 1915, the claim being that the property was insufficiently described. On the assessment-roll the property was described as: “Lot 41, Block No. 3756.” At the top of each page of the assessment-roll appeared the notation that the property was described “by lot and block number as delineated on the assessment map of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California,…