Howell

— This action was brought to quiet title to a portion of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 18, township 2 south, range 13 west, San Bernardino meridian, and to recover the possession thereof. Defendant had judgment, from which, and an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff claims title by virtue of mesne conveyances from L. Ketchum, a patentee of the United States; *541 and the defendant, under similar conveyances from F. S. Clough and P. H. Newbill, patentees of the state of California, and also by his own adverse possession, and by virtue of a judgment of the late district court of the seventeenth judicial district, rendered in án action involving the right to the possession of the premises in dispute, prosecuted by Clough and Newbill against Ketchum.

The facts, as shown by the findings, are these: April 22, 1868, the plat of the survey of the land in question was filed in the United States land-office at San Francisco, the land then being within the San Francisco land district. Afterward, on the formation of the Los Angeles land district, which included the same land, the plat was, on November 21, 1871, transferred to and filed in…