Petition of Furness

This appeal is taken under the provisions of section 953(a) of the Code of Civil Procedure. It is from an order of the superior court dismissing the amended petition of Edgar J. Sharpless to set aside the supplemental decree rendered by that court in this proceeding. The original petition of Frank Furness et al. for registration of their lands under the ‘1 Torrens Title Act” (Stats. 1915, p. 1932) was filed June 26, 1919. It contained a number of applications, among which was that of Sylvester W. Barton and Lelia Adelaid Barton, his wife, which sets forth that they have had actual, adverse, exclusive possession of certain land, and prays for a decree determining the title thereto to be in themselves. The premises therein described are as follows: “One separate parcel of land described as commencing at the northeasterly corner of lot 1 of the subdivision of lot 19 of Gunn and Hazzard’s plat of the Cullen Tract, in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, as per map recorded in Book 42, page 28, of Miscellaneous records in the office of the recorder of said county; thence north 39° 4F east 181.2 feet; thence south 55° 30' east 556.2 feet; thence south 39° 41/ west 623.8 feet;…