Yanez v. Kler CA4/2
In March 2010, defendant and appellant, Amanjit Kler, acquired a trustee’s deed to two adjoining real properties, Parcels 1 and 2, at a nonjudicial foreclosure sale. In 2011, plaintiff and respondent, Inocencio Solis Yanez, sued Kler, ultimately seeking to quiet title to Parcel 2 and to reform a 2006 grant deed to Parcels 1 and 2 that Yanez and his wife executed in favor of two buyers who later lost both parcels in the foreclosure sale.
When Yanez and his wife signed the 2006 grant deed, Parcel 1 had a house on it and Parcel 2 was a vacant lot. Page 1 of the grant deed included the legal description and the assessor’s parcel number (APN) of Parcel 1, but not Parcel 2. However, Exhibit A to the grant deed included the legal descriptions of both parcels. Between 2007 and 2009, Yanez built a house on Parcel 2, thinking he still owned Parcel 2. Yanez also paid the real property taxes on Parcel 2 until October 2010, when he did not receive the tax bill for Parcel 2.
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