Interstate Realty & Improvement Co. v. Clark

Plaintiff sued to quiet title to certain real property situated in Los Angeles County. The defendant answered, setting up in haec verba a tax deed from the state covering the same property. The plaintiff did not controvert the deed by affidavit or further pleading and the parties went to trial on the complaint and answer. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff upon findings that the tax deed was void on its face, and from the judgment the defendant has appealed on a typewritten record.

The tax deed was executed on July 21, 1922, and recited that the property was regularly assessed for…