Helvey v. Coachella Valley County Water District

Plaintiff A. C. Helvey brought this action to quiet title to real property situated in Riverside County. The defendant answered and filed a cross-complaint to quiet its title to the same property. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment quieting title in the defendant district.

Plaintiff claims title by a quitclaim deed executed to plaintiff by Mary E. Ellsworth and Herbert L. Ellsworth on February 19, 1946, and by a default judgment against Emily H. Day, dated July 31, 1947, and procured in the Superior Court in Los Angeles County in action No. 529060. The evidence shows that the Ellsworths…