Conley

This action was instituted to quiet title of plaintiff to a certain lot of land situated in the city of Inglewood. The plaintiff prevailed and the defendant has appealed from the judgment in plaintiff’s favor.

Plaintiff claims under a city treasurer’s deed executed in pursuance of street improvement proceedings instituted under the improvement act of March 18, 1885. (Stats. "1885, p. 147, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.) This act is better known as the Vrooman Act. Defendant claims under a city treasurer’s deed, executed in pursuance of like proceedings instituted under the same act. The proceedings under which the defendant’s deed was executed were instituted and consummated long prior to the institution of the proceedings under which plaintiff’s deed was executed. The lien, therefore, of the plaintiff being subsequent in time to that of defendant is superior to that of defendant, and a sale to satisfy plaintiff’s lien and execution of a deed by the city treasurer in pursuance of said sale completely extinguished the lien of the defendant and all of his rights in said real property acquired by him under his treasurer’s deed. (Woodill & Hulse Elec. Co. v.…