Ringrose

The action, brought to cancel a deed made by one George Lewis to the defendant Josephine Y. Gleadall and to quiet plaintiff’s title as against both defendants, resulted in a judgment for the latter in accordance with their answer and eross-eomplaint. There is no controversy as to the essential facts in the case. In 1887 Ann Galvin died testate in Contra Costa county and, on the eighteenth day of November, 1898, the superior court of said county, by its decree of final distribution in the matter of the estate of said Arm Galvin, deceased, distributed certain real property belonging to said estate and situated in said county, in accordance with the terms of the will of said decedent, in severalty to Rhody Ringrose as trustee in trust for said George Lewis and Margaret Lewis to sell and dispose of and invest the proceeds in such manner as said George Lewis and Margaret Lewis shall have the benefit thereof, the investment to be made by said trustee as he shall think for the best interest of George Lewis and Margaret Lewis. Plaintiff sold the lands so distributed to him and invested a portion of the proceeds in other lands, a part of which is involved in this action, and he invested…