Melicharek

Prior to the year 1913, at a sale for delinquent assessments for the widening of Figueroa Street, in the city of Los Angeles, under the Street Opening and Widening Act of 1903, four lots of land in said city were sold to the defendant Anna M. Colkins, and certificates of sale thereon were issued to her. Thereafter she made assignments of said certificates of sale to A. Colkins. In the month of October, 1913, the street superintendent of the city of Los Angeles conveyed to A. Colkins, as assignee of defendant Anna M. Colkins, the four lots above mentioned. On or about the third day of November, 1913, A. Colkins sold and by grant deeds (one for each lot), conveyed to the plaintiff said four lots, plaintiff paying for each of said lots the agreed price of $275. Anna M. Colkins, who was the wife of A. Colkins, joined with him in the execution of the deeds to plaintiff. Without describing the several tracts in which the lots were located, we will designate them by their lot numbers only. While the plaintiff and A. Colkins were negotiating for the sale, they took the tax deeds to the office of Mr. Mattingly, an attorney at law, and asked him if they were valid. He told them that it…