Paoli

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment in favor of defendants and cross-complainants in an action brought by plaintiff to quiet title to Lot 14 of Block B in Loch Lomond Subdivision Number 1 in Lake County.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prather were the owners of land near Clear Lake. They filed a subdivision map of the area. They conveyed the entire subdivision to the Lake County Title Company, the plan apparently being that Mr. Prather would sell the lots in the subdivision and upon his order the title company would act as transfer agent to convey the lots as ordered. There was a bank of lots in Block B of the subdiviison, numbered in series 12 to 15, inclusive, of which Lot 15 had been sold to one Stefani. Albert Casentini, dealing with Prather, was shown the lot next to Stefani’s lot, which was Lot Number 14, and he undertook to buy it for $250. At that time there were no visible signs on the ground indicating the number of any of these lots but there is no doubt that the lot he was shown, and the lot he then undertook to buy was Lot Number 14. A short while later he was shown a lot in the same bank of lots about 100 feet from the one he had engaged to buy, and he undertook to…