Sears v. Willard
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County granting a new trial. T. L. Lewis, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
Plaintiff sued to quiet title to two lots in Morse’s Addition in the city of San Diego. Defendants answered denying plaintiff’s title; setting up their own title by conveyance as well as by open and exclusive possession of the property and payment of the taxes thereon; and pleading the bar of the statute of limitations. The court found that plaintiff was not the owner of nor entitled to the possession of the land in question; that for more than five years after their entry thereon under a certain tax title pursuant to certificates of sale of said premises, for nonpayment of city taxes for the…
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