Anderson

—This action and two companion cases (Anderson v. Broadwell, post, p. 150 [ 6 Pac. (2d) 267 ]; Broadwell v. Anderson, post, p. 145 [ 6 Pac. (2d) 269 ]) involve the title to three pieces of real property situated in Los Angeles County. The three cases were consolidated for trial and, while separate judgments were entered and separate appeals taken, by stipulation, all three eases have been here presented upon a single transcript and one set of briefs. All of the parties are closely related and, as frequently happens in such cases, the actions have been fought with much zeal and some bitterness. The plaintiff, August Anderson, is the brother of the defendant Sofie A. Broadwell, who is the widow of W. B. Broadwell. The defendant Helen Lea Broadwell is the daughter of Sofie A. Broadwell and the niece of the plaintiff.

The plaintiff and his brother-in-law W. B. Broadwell, now deceased, had been friends for forty years and during most of that time they" had either been partners in operating stores in various localities in California and Nevada, or the plaintiff had been employed by his brother-in-law in operating such stores. The plaintiff, however, had been something of a wanderer,…