Roberts v. Roberts

Plaintiff brought this action to quiet title to lots 9 and 11, block 137, in the city of Long Beach, and lot 190 in the town of Willowbrook, all in the county of Los Angeles. The defendant is his stepmother. Judgment passed for defendant and plaintiff appeals.

Hulda R. Roberts, mother of this plaintiff and then wife of his father Charles Roberts, owned lots 5 and 6 of block 10 of the California Co-operative Colony Tract. She conveyed this property to her husband by deed, reciting a consideration of love and affection. Thereafter she died. Charles Roberts married Margerie M. Roberts, defendant…