California Supreme Court June 10, 1889, No. 12896 (Wallace v.Maples)

Works, J.

—This is an action in ejectment. The defendants answered denying the allegations of the complaint, and by way of counterclaim set up an equitable title to the land in controversy.

The answer discloses about this state of facts: The respondent was the owner of five separate tracts of land. She leased four of these tracts to the appellant T. W.