Ward

The plaintiff commenced an action to quiet title against a large number of defendants. One of the defendants, E. A. Parksford, appeared and answered. In his answer he denied the material allegations of the plaintiff’s complaint and set forth a special defense in which he pleaded certain facts which he claimed would constitute an equitable estoppel that would preclude the plaintiff from any recovery. Still later the defendant Parkford filed a cross-complaint. The plaintiff answered the cross-complaint and a trial was had in the trial court on all of the issues so made by the pleadings. The court made findings on the material allegations of the plaintiff’s complaint and the answer thereto and it made findings on some of the issues presented by the other affirmative allegations made in the above-mentioned pleadings of the defendant Parkford. A judgment was entered in favor of the defendants and against the plaintiff and from that judgment the plaintiff has appealed.

In his brief the appellant contends (1) that John S. Baker, his assignor, acquired title to the property in dispute by adverse possession acquired under a written instrument consisting of a certificate of sale made by…