Brusseau v. Hill

This is an appeal from a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor in an action to quiet title to a tract of land in the city of Oakland. The complaint is in the usual brief form of pleading in such actions. The answer consists in equally brief denials of the plaintiff’s ownership and averments to the effect that the title to the premises in question was in Charles Kruse, deceased, at the time of his death, and that the right of possession thereto is in his estate, of which the defendant is the administrator. The findings of fact of the trial court reveal specifically the source and foundation of the…