Lemon v. Landers

OPINION

By the Court,

ZENOFF, D. J.:

The action herein presented is one customarily brought in ejectment and sometimes in equity to cancel instruments of conveyance, but the parties stipulated that these proceedings be to quiet title to real property to which ownership is claimed by appellant but respondent holds an unrecorded deed.

In July, 1959, appellant purchased undeveloped realty in Lyon County and proceeded to add improvements thereon until it became worth about $20,000.00. Respondent, whom he had met in a bar in Sacramento earlier that year, leased the improved property from the…