Fleshman

Plaintiffs began this action to quiet title to portions of three lots situated in the Blackstone Park Addition to the city of Fresno. The complaint is in the ordinary form of an action to quiet title, the plaintiffs resting upon a certain agreement of purchase held by them with the owners of the property. The prayer of the complaint is that the defendants be required to set forth the nature of their claim to the premises; that it be adjudged that the defendants have no title thereto, and that the title of the plaintiffs to the premises be quieted. The answer filed by the defendants consists of simple denials of the allegation of the complaint and an allegation that the plaintiffs entered into a contract with one O. C. Fleshman for the purchase of the property mentioned in plaintiff’s complaint, and that said Fleshman thereafter assigned and sold all his right, title, and interest therein to the defendant D. Lillian Clark.,

The action was tried principally upon an agreed statement of facts from which it appears as follows: That on or about the eighteenth day of February, 1920, the plaintiffs entered into a contract of sale and purchase with C. C. Flesh-man, the grantor of the…