Donegan

The above cases were, by stipulation, consolidated for trial, and are, upon this appeal, presented to us upon one set of briefs, and, for convenience, will be hereafter referred to as the “Dorsey” case and the “Donegan” case, respectively.

In the respective cases the plaintiffs had judgment quieting title to the lots hereafter mentioned, and the defendant appeals from the judgment in each case.

On the twenty-seventh day of April, 1925, the plaintiff Dorsey began an action in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County to quiet title to lots 6, 12 and 13, in block 93, of the town of San Pedro, Los Angeles County. The first cause of action is in the common form of an action to quiet title. The second and third causes of action set out ■in the complaint do not require mention. In the fourth cause of action it is alleged that on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1912, the said Rebecca Lee Dorsey owned the title to the premises herein mentioned; that on or about said date there was entered in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, in a certain action wherein the City of Los Angeles was plaintiff and Arthur S. Koyer et al. were defendants, a judgment and decree condemning said land…