Holland v. Hotchkiss

This is an action to quiet title and determine adverse claims to a section of land. The plaintiff proved a title derived from the United States. The defendant Hotchkiss, claims title solely under two deeds from the state of California to one Barthold, executed by the county tax-collector of Fresno County, purporting to be made in pursuance of sales and deeds to the state for delinquent taxes. Barthold afterward conveyed the land to Hotchkiss. The defendant Canty, claims a right to purchase from Hotchkiss the undivided one half of the land.

The judgment of the court below was that the plaintiff…