Kuenzel v. Grettenberg

Plaintiff and appellant appealed from an adverse judgment in a suit to quiet title to certain property in San Bernardino County. She is the widow of Simon Kuenzel, who died in 1940. The acreage involved was taken up as a homestead. A patent was issued to that land in 1921. Under probate proceedings the property was set aside to the plaintiff widow on August 24, 1942. Defendant and respondent Maude A. Grettenberg set up a claim to an undivided one-half interest therein by virtue of a grant deed from plaintiff dated August 3, 1942, and recorded August 14, 1942. It should be here noted that the…