Edelstein

In this action plaintiff and respondent obtained a decree quieting title to five parcels of real property in Imperial County as against the defendant and appellant Imperial Irrigation District which appeals from the decree hut apparently urges the application of the appeal only as to Parcels 2 and 4. As to the other party defendants the matter was disposed of prior to trial.

In the complaint plaintiff claimed fee title to all five parcels set forth in the decree. Appellant district claimed a flooding easement for the Saltón Sea over all those portions of the five parcels located below the “minus 220-foot contour level.” In *796 appellant’s opening brief the appeal is confined to Parcels 2 and 4, conceding that plaintiff did show a better title to Parcels 1, 3 and 5. All parties agreed that the common source of title to Parcels 2 and 4 was in one Conover. He acquired title to Parcel 2 in 1919 under the name of C. B. Conover (Exhibit 15) and Parcel 4 in 1920 as Clarence B. Conover (Exhibit 16). The evidence as to the chain of title is entirely documentary. On October 18, 1950 C. B. Conover deeded a portion of Lot 4 to one Lemuel G. Davis and wife (Exhibit 6). On November 13, 1953,…