Urban

The plaintiff commenced an action against the defendants to quiet title to a tract of land in Los Angeles County. The defendants appeared and answered and filed a cross-complaint. The plaintiff answered the cross-complaint and the parties went to trial on the issues so framed. The trial court made findings in favor of the plaintiff, and a judgment was entered thereon. The defendants made a motion for a new trial, the motion was denied and they have appealed from the said judgment under section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Prior to the sixth day of July, 1922, Marie Vereh owned lots 26, 28, and 30, and the easterly 18.735 feet of lot 32 in block 23 of “Park Tract” in the city of Los Angeles. On that date the plaintiff purchased the said lands from Marie Verch through P. B. Yoakum as a broker. Thereafter on the tenth day of July, 1922, the plaintiff sold to the said P. B. Yoakum about one-half of said tract. When the plaintiff purchased he paid Marie Verch $1,000 down and executed to her a mortgage for the balance, which mortgage secured three notes, each bearing interest at six per cent— one for $3,500 payable September 1, 1922, one for $4,500 payable December 1, 1922, and…