DeFlon v. Van Lue

Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in this action to quiet title to real property. The complaint alleged that plaintiff was the owner and in possession of the property, that defendant claimed an interest therein adverse to plaintiff, and that the claim was without any right whatever. The defendant denied those allegations, except the one as to the interest claimed by him; and he alleged in his answer that “this defendant admits that the said estate claims title thereto.” At the trial plaintiff offered 'in evidence a tax deed executed by the tax collector of Los Angeles…