Johnston v. Courtial

Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action to quiet title.

On the 23d of September, 1929, the plaintiff was the owner of 2,743 acres of land in Alameda County. On that day, as lessor, she executed a lease of the premises to the defendant, Alexis W. Courtial and Walter S. Kings-bury as lessees. The lease recites “that the lessor, for and in consideration of ten dollars to her in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, leases to the lessees” the land which is particularly described; and further provides in respects pertinent to this controversy that “this lease…