Avery v. Avery

This is an action to quiet title to five lots described in the- complaint and situated in Berkeley, Alameda County. From a judgment for the defendants, the plaintiff appeals. The defendants answered separately, each claiming a different portion of the land described in the complaint as grantees of Fidelius Avery, deceased. It is conceded that on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1915, title to this land was in Fidelius Avery, the foster father of the plaintiff. Plaintiff claims title thereto as his heir at law, asserting first, that the deeds under which the defendants’ claim as grantees were…