Widney

This is an appeal from a judgment quieting defendants’ title to a strip of land 2,300 feet long by 150 feet wide, adjoining defendants’ right of way at the station of Pacoima, between San Fernando and Burbank, in Los Angeles County, California.

The complaint alleges ownership in plaintiffs, and that defendants’ claim to said property is without right. Defendants deny plaintiffs’ ownership and plead a conveyance from R. M. Widney, Charles Maclay, J. K. Alexander and H. L. Macneil, in whom the title to said property stood at the time of said conveyance to defendants, said conveyance being executed and delivered July 11, 1887, and recorded July 18, 1887. Defendants also plead the statute of limitations, sections 318, 319 and 320, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and set up, in addition, a cross-complaint under which they seek to quiet their title. Defendants had judgment on their cross-complaint, and the plaintiffs appealed from such judgment.

The complaint describes the land as “that certain tract of land being a portion of Maclay Rancho of the Ex-Mission de San Fernando, in Los Angeles county, California, described as follows: Beginning at the east corner of lot 1421 in the town…