Blakeslee

This is an action of ejectment against defendant Hall to recover certain land in the city of Los *160 Angeles. Whitworth and others intervened. Judgment was rendered against plaintiff, and he appealed from the judgment, and from an order denying a new trial.

Plaintiff claimed title under a certain deed of conveyance of the land in contest, executed by Lydia Rebbeck on February 3, 1886. The only language in the deed which designates the grantee or the purposes of the grant is the following: “I, Lydia Rebbeck, of the county of Los Angeles, state of California, widow, grant to George A. Blakeslee, of Galien, Berrien County, Michigan, and to his successor in office as bishop of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, all that real property,” etc. By the deed there was reserved to said Lydia the possession and rents and profits of the land during her life, and also a lease to defendant Hall, which expired March 15, 1889. On March 23, 1887, the said Lydia died, and upon the distribution of her estate the said land went to the interveners, unless it went to the present appellant through said deed to Blakeslee. Defendant Hall is in possession under said…