Redman

Three separate actions were commenced in the court below by the plaintiffs against the defendants for the purpose of quieting their title against certain tax deeds running to the defendants. Inasmuch as they all involved the same alleged defects they were tried together; judgment in each case went for the defendant; and the appeals from the several judgments are presented to us by stipulation in one transcript. The property is all situated in the Redman elementary school district, the Antelope Valley union high school district and in the county of Los Angeles. The sales were for delinquent taxes for the year 1916.

Three contentions are advanced by the appellants as reasons for the reversal of the judgments and they are as follows:

For the sake of clarity we have set down the above assertions in their order and shall follow them seriatim in our consideration of the cause.

Turning to the claim that the delinquent tax list was insufficient because it specified that the amounts set opposite the descriptions of the parcels of property represented the "amount due for taxes and costs” without saying whether the sums also covered penalties, we find that the transcript does not disclose…