County of Riverside v. Title Insurance & Trust Co.

This appeal was taken by the defendant Title Insurance and Trust Company, a corporation, from a judgment entered in favor of the County of Riverside decreeing the foreclosure of a lien upon defendant’s real property as security for the payment of a charge of $1,260.71, including interest and costs, on account of expenses and costs incurred by said county in the abatement of a nuisance after notice to and failure or refusal on the part of defendant to exterminate, destroy, and eradicate from the soil of said real property a certain noxious weed known as Russian thistles, and ground-squirrels, a common animal pest (secs. 2322, 2322a, Pol. Code; Stats. 1917, p. 627). By the second amended complaint filed in the court below it was alleged that defendant corporation was the owner of a tract of land situate in the County of Riverside, this state, particularly described as “lots 1 to 12 inclusive; lots 29 to 50 inclusive; lots 67 to 84 inclusive; lots 114 to 119 inclusive; lots 124 to 125 inclusive, of Fairhaven Farms, West Riverside, as shown by map on file in Book 6, page 2 of Maps, records of Riverside County.” The sixty lots above enumerated contain five acres each, totaling 300…