Stratton

— The plaintiff brought this action to quiet his title to four thousand acres of land situate in Plumas County. All the defendants defaulted except Jacob Goldberg, Charles M. Fry, A. F. Higgins, Hugh Craig, and Charles Kohler. Of the latter,Goldberg filed a disclaimer, and the others filed answers and cross-complaints, to *355 which the plaintiff answered, putting in issue the new matter set up in each. Fry and Higgins, in their cross-complaint, claimed under a deed of trust executed to themselves and one Charles Kohler, by the California Land and Timber Company, to secure certain amounts and obligations due from the company to various persons and corporations, and also to secure a loan not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars that the company was at the time negotiating for. Craig, in his cross-complaint, claimed as receiver in an action brought by Fry and Higgins, as such trustees, in the United States circuit court of the ninth judicial district, and Kohler, in his cross-complaint, claimed as assignee in insolvency of the California Land and Timber Company. Judgment passed for the plaintiff against all of the defendants, and those of the defendants who filed answers and…