Norris v. Norris

The respondent, E. A. Norris, brought this action to quiet title to certain ranch lands against the competing claims of his son, Henry, and grandson, Ernest, the appellants.

E. A. Norris married Irene Norris, now deceased, in 1932. During their marriage they acquired real property known as the Warm Springs Ranch — the subject of this controversy. The Norrises had no children, but in 1950 they adopted the appellant, Henry C. Norris, whom they had raised from infancy. Henry Norris married in 1951 and moved onto the Warm Springs Ranch where, until this lawsuit, he lived and worked. Henry and his…