Priddel v. Shankie

This is an appeal from a judgment of partition ordering the sale of certain real property and distribution of the proceeds from such sale,, after payment of taxes, expenses of sale, etc., to appellant and respondents as their interests appear. The record discloses that the plaintiff and defendant Shankie each owned an undivided one-half interest in the parcel which was the subject of the partition suit, and that Shankie’s one-half interest therein was at all times separate property, having been acquired through a devise while Shankie was a single man. The county of Los Angeles extended…