Nilson

This is an appeal from a judgment in the plaintiffs’ favor in an action to quiet their title as against the defendants to a strip of land thirty feet wide running across what is known as the Marshall ranch, in the county of Sonoma, and containing .55 acres of land.

The facts out of which the respective claims of the parties herein arise to interests in this strip of land are these: The ranch was a goodly number of years ago subdivided. In the year 1907 one Geo. P. McNear was the owner of a tract within the boundaries of said ranch containing nearly 17 acres, including this strip, which constituted the northerly thirty feet across the width thereof. The plaintiffs Nilson and Abraham-son were the owners of two other tracts in said ranch to the westward of the McNear tract. On June 8,1907, McNear conveyed to Anna B. Nilson and Albertine Abrahamson said thirty foot wide strip of land extending from the county road to their properties, and in said conveyance he inserted the following reservation: “Reserving, however, unto the said party of the first part and the 16.30 acre tract hereinafter described as an easement in favor of said tract of 16.30 acres forever, and in favor of every…