Shaffer

Defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff on its complaint and on defendants’ cross-complaint.

Questions Presented

1. Which Bayshore Voters League was in existence at the time of the deed to plaintiff?

2. Is plaintiff estopped to claim title against defendants ?

3. Does the evidence support the finding that the deed of trust was void and do the findings support the judgment ?

Record

Plaintiff brought this action to quiet title to certain real property and the frame building thereon in Bayshore, San Mateo County. Defendants cross-complained, asking that the title to said property be quieted in Bayshore Voters League. The court found plaintiff to be the owner of said property and quieted plaintiff’s title thereto.

In 1932 or 1933 a group of public-spirited citizens opposed to gambling in the area organized the “Bayshore Voters League,” an unincorporated association. One of the organizers was defendant Claude Higgins. To provide a meeting place, the group raised some money and purchased the land. Title for the group was taken in the names of two of the *484 group, John P. Lawson and Rhoda Lawson, his wife. A building was erected on the property through donations…