Ross

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the respondent Burkhard Investment Company, a corporation, in a suit to quiet title to lot eighteen of sheet No. four, in tract No. 3192, adjoining Wilmington, Los Angeles County.

This action involves the title to an irregular crescent-shaped tract of land some 600 feet in depth and 1,600 feet in length, situated within the boundaries of the city of Los Angeles at the southerly outskirts of Wilmington, and is bounded on the west by the Wilmington and San Pedro Road, and on the easterly and southerly sides by the extreme western basin of the inner harbor channel of the bay of San Pedro, containing some 15 acres of land. The respondent contends that the tract in controversy is a part'of the Mexican grant of the Rancho Los Palos Verdes, which borders on the west inner harbor channel of San Pedro Bay; while, upon the contrary, the appellant denies this assertion and claims that it is a bit of “no-man’s land” situated above the line of ordinary high tide, which was omitted from the survey of the above-mentioned rancho, and which is a part of a tract of tide land purchased by, and conveyed in 1880 to Phinneas Banning, the father of…