Galvin v. White

Appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant White and from an order denying plaintiffs motion for a new trial. The action was one to quiet title to a fifty-vara lot in the city and county of San Francisco.

Plaintiff claimed title through an unrecorded deed from one Thomas Lea, purporting to have been made, executed, and delivered to said Galvin in 1891. The court found that this deed was destroyed by the fire of April 18, 1906. There were also findings that Thomas Lea never entered into possession of the property under claim of title founded upon a written instrument; that said…