Stern

On June 29, 1904, the appellant, Judson, commenced an action entitled W. B. Judson v. C. S. Patrick et al., against this plaintiff and seventeen other parties to quiet his alleged title to various pare'Is of lard in Los Angeles County, including lots fifteen and sixteen of the New York Tract, averring in his complaint that he was the owner in fee thereof and that defendants had no estate or interest therein. Service of summons was by publication, the order of the court therefor being based on the verified complaint in said action and an affidavit of plaintiff made and fi'ed therein in which he stated that he had examined “the great register of the city an.d county of Los Angeles . . . the tax-roll for several years last past . . . and did not find the addresses therein of any” of twelve of the defendants in said action (mentioning them), including the present plaintiff; that he had made “numerous inquiries as to the residence of each and every of the above named defendants from . . . Julius Lyons, Esq., A. H. Judson, the county tax-collector, auditor and county recorder . . . also W. R. Jones, H. A. Greenwald and A. G. Strain” all of Los Angeles County “and also numerous other…