Kilfoil

This is an action to quiet title. The complaint is in the usual form. The answer denies all the material allegations of the complaint, except that it is asserted that defendant Julia P. Warden “claims and asserts some right, title or interest in and to said property adverse to plaintiff, and denies that the same are without any right, and alleges that the defendant Julia P. Warden acquired said property under and by virtue of a conveyance from the city tax and license collector of the city of Los Angeles for a delinquent assessment for the improvement of Alhambra Avenue from the east boundary line of the city of Los Angeles to the southeasterly line of Mission Road and other streets, as will more fully appear in the attached copy of said conveyance and marked Exhibit ‘A,’ and by reference thereto made a part of' this answer. ’ ’ Defendants asked that the title be quieted in them.

On the trial, in addition to oral testimony, the plaintiff introduced in evidence a deed to the property in question, dated January 11, 1916, and recorded with the county recorder on January 21, 1916. The grantor in this deed was one Mary Myers, a widow, and the plaintiff here was the grantee. Plaintiff…