Burrows
Los Angeles Mountain Park Co. v. Burrows
Opinion
lead Opinion
Sturtevant, J.
is an action in ejectment. The trial court made findings in favor of the plaintiff and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant Francisca Sepulveda Burrows has appealed, and has brought up typewritten transcripts.
On the trial the plaintiff introduced documentary evidence consisting of deeds showing on their face a chain of paper fee title back to Arcadia de Baker in 1897. The plaintiff also introduced evidence that it had paid all of the state and county taxes for the years 1914^1927, both years inclusive. The foregoing facts were not controverted. In the presentation of the plaintiff’s ease and also in the presentation of the defendant’s case, evidence was introduced showing that the defendant Francisca Sepulveda Burrows, on September 26, 1922, entered upon the lands in dispute and took possession of at least a part thereof. She continued to hold such possession down to February 27, 1928, the date this action was commenced. There was evidence that no taxes or local assessments upon the property were paid by the defendants or any of them. Neither were these latter facts controverted. If the taxes levied during the period September 26, 1922, until February 27, 1927, were…