McPike v. Heaton

The defendant was the owner of the undivided half of a certain tract of land in Alameda county on the first Monday of March, 1897, and for many years prior thereto, and on March 24, 1897, he made a grant, bargain, and sale deed of his interest in the land to one Jackson. On the next day Jackson conveyed the land to the plaintiffs by a grant, bargain, and sale deed, and the plaintiffs have since remained the owners thereof. The land was assessed to the defendant for the purposes of revenue for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1897, and taxes were levied thereon for that year by the city of…