Weller

This is an action to quiet title to a parcel of land two hundred feet in length and sixty feet in width, situated in the city of Port Bragg, county of Mendocino. Plaintiff recovered judgment and the defendants appeal.

The complaint contained the usual allegations that the plaintiff was the owner of the property in question, that the defendants claimed an adverse interest therein and that their claim was without right. The answer admits that the defendants claim an interest in the land and alleges that they are the owners of an easement therein, to wit, the privilege of ingress and egress over the same as a public highway or street and an easement for a right of way appurtenant to the lands of the defendant Louisa M. Brown adjoining the lands described in the complaint. As a separate defense the defendants allege that on July 7, 1906, defendant Louisa M. Brown owned a lot or block of land and that the parcel described in the complaint constituted a strip of land sixty feet in width running through the center of said land; that the land on either side of said strip belongs to the defendants; that on said July 7, 1906, the plaintiff took a deed from Louisa M. Brown for the parcel in…