In Re Barlow

Petitioners Edward C. Lewis and Bertha Johanna Lewis, hereinafter referred to as "petitioners," prayed the superior court to have their land, the east half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 15, township 3 south, range 12 west, in Rancho *Page 788 Santa Gertrudes in Los Angeles County, registered under the provisions of the so-called Torrens Land Title Law. (Stats. 1915, p. 1932.) In their answer defendants allege that they are the owners and entitled to the possession of the land lying on the north of petitioners' land; that defendant Grover W. Ball owns the land immediately adjoining petitioners' land and that the land of defendant Elmer E. Ball adjoins on the north the land of defendant Grover W. Ball; and that petitioners are claiming a strip of land 662.74 feet long east and west and 5 feet wide at its east end and 3.8 feet wide at its west end, off the south side of the land of defendant Grover W. Ball, and are endeavoring to have the north line of their land advanced northerly from the true line so as to include the strip. The trial court gave judgment in favor of petitioners, awarding the strip to them, and ordering the land of petitioners…