Penaat v. Terwilliger

23 Cal.2d 865 (1944)

NAOMI J. PENAAT, Appellant,

v.

CLARA TERWILLIGER, Respondent.

S. F. No. 16864.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Mar. 30, 1944.

William H. Penaat for Appellant.

Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General, H. H. Linney, Assistant Attorney General, and Adrian A. Kragen, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Edmund J. Holl for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant failed to pay the county taxes for 1934 upon a lot that she owned in San Mateo County. Plaintiff purchased the property at a tax sale on June 28, 1940, and subsequently brought this action to quiet her title…