Freeman

Action brought by plaintiffs to quiet title to certain lots of land in the townsite of Inglewood, in Los Angeles county. Judgment was in favor of defendants, and plaintiffs have appealed from an order denying a motion made by them for a new trial.

Prior to November, 1902, plaintiffs, as real estate agents and brokers, had been employed by defendant Freeman and his wife to negotiate the sale of property owned by said defendants at Inglewood. Some property had been sold under that agency and in November, 1902, there was pending a sale of a large amount of said property under negotiations made by plaintiffs with parties representing the Inglewood Water Company. Defendant Archibald C. Freeman visited the office of plaintiffs one day while such negotiations were under way and there, at the suggestion of plaintiff Van Alstyne, made a deed, which was signed and duly acknowledged by himself and wife and purported to convey to plaintiffs-title to the property in question in this action. This deed was placed among the papers of plaintiffs at their office, and two weeks later Freeman called and asked to examine it. It had never been recorded and Van Alstyne procured it from his files and…