Williams v. Briggs

This is a suit to quiet title, brought by the record owner of real property in Lane county against persons in the record chain of title, including Sandra Briggs, a minor, whose parents had her name included in the deed when they purchased the property which was later sold to plaintiff’s grantor.

Although the parents disclaim any interest in the property for themselves, the mother of the minor, as her subsequently appointed guardian, seeks by counter-suit to assert her daughter’s claim to an undivided one-half interest in the property and to cancel the deed by which her daughter joined in the…