Jorgensen v. Jorgensen

This is an action to quiet title. The land in dispute originally belonged to the plaintiff, Andrew Jorgensen, who is the father of some of the parties and the grandfather of the other parties. Plaintiffs other than Andrew claim title to the land under deeds executed in 1949. Defendants claim title under a deed executed in 1939 and another deed in 1946. The trial court held plaintiffs’ title good under the 1949 deeds, and defendants appeal.

The controversy had its inception on December 29, 1939, when Andrew Jorgensen, who was then 78 years of age, telephoned Norman Jaquith, a lawyer at…