Peck

This is an action to quiet title to a lot in San Pedro, Los Angeles County. Plaintiff obtained judgment, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial defendant appeals.

Upon the trial it was stipulated that the title of defendant was based upon a sale of the lot made to the state of California on July 3, 1895, for delinquent state and county taxes of the year-1894; on two deeds made by the tax-collector of Los Angeles County to the state in pursuance of said sale, one undated, but recorded on July 16, 1900, and the other executed on December 12, 1902, and which was made to correct the first deed to the state under said sale of July 3, 1895; on a deed from the county tax-collector on behalf of the state of California to defendant made on March 1, 1902, and a second correction deed to the state by the tax-collector of Los Angeles County, dated December 31, 1903, but not recorded. It was further stipulated that the title to the property was in plaintiff, unless by virtue of the tax-sale and said deeds to the state and the deed from the state to him, title was established in the defendant.

The various tax-deeds referred to in the stipulation were introduced in evidence and…