Blair

This is an action upon a contract by which defendants guaranteed the payment of certain rent of premises hereinafter described and let by the plaintiff to Ryan and Long.

The most important question in this case is the construction to be placed upon the description of the demised premises found in the lease. The description is as follows:

This seems clear enough, but when the subject matter of the lease is disclosed, a problem arises which is not so simple. On May 1, 1911, the plaintiff was the owner of the building on the northwest corner of Ellis and Mason Streets, in the city of San Francisco, which had a front of 60 feet on Mason Street and of 97 feet 6 inches on Ellis Street. In the southeast comer of this building was a store with a frontage of 15 feet on Ellis Street and a ‘ ‘depth of 45 feet on Mason Street, ’ ’ the entrance being on Ellis and the store being No. 200 Ellis Street. In the rear of this store was a small store having a frontage of 15 feet on Mason Street by a depth of 15 feet on Latham Place, which ran parallel to Ellis Street and bounded the building on the north side. The entrance to this small store was on Mason Street and it was known as No. 209 Mason…