Maloney v. Hefer

■ BELCHER, C. C.

The plaintiffs were husband and wife, and brought this action to quiet their title to a lot of land in the city of San Francisco. The lot fronts on Perry street, having a width of twenty-five feet and a depth of eighty feet, and is claimed by the plaintiffs as their homestead.

In January and February, 1883, there were two houses on the lot, one on the front and the other on the rear part of it, and the value of the whole property was between two thou*820sand five hundred and three thousand dollars. The front house had a basement, and above it two flats or stories, which were leased…